New life to Iraq Infant child

New Delhi April 15: Noida Doctors have been done a greate job that A boy born with eight limbs and two of them protruding out of his stomach have removed the extra arms and legs successfully here on Friday.

While coming to matter, that An Iraqi boy born with eight limbs, two of them protruding out of his stomach, is set to return home after successful surgery in India to remove the extra arms and legs. Doctors said this was because of a rare condition, polymelia, which occurs during embryonic development.

Meanwhile, "The embryo starts developing in the uterus into conjoined twins but one twin degenerates completely because of some genetic change, leaving behind extra limbs. In this case, apart from the limbs, the child also had another small intestine and three testes that had to be removed surgically," explained Dr Abhishek, consultant pediatric surgeon at Jaypee Hospital in Noida, where the surgery was conducted. Polymelia is an extremely rare condition affecting one in a million infants and it is even rarer for them to undergo successful surgeries, given the complexities, he said.