Nine-year-old had daily blackouts for 5 months: How AI tool helped doctors diagnose a rare condition in record time

For five months, nine-year-old Manoj (name changed) would faint every day. Every single day, without so much as a warning, the boy would press his ears, complain of a strange sensation, pain and then collapse. His father, a carpenter in Gurugram, skipped work on most days to monitor his son’s sudden attacks. “Every time he touched his ears, my heart would stop. I knew what was coming next,” he says. Doctor after doctor would attempt a diagnosis but the fainting spells would not stop. Till they used AI to zero in on a rare neurological condition that troubled the boy.