Doctors successfully operate baby with 6 legs

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The doctors at NICH Karachi on successfully operated on the six-legged baby boy on Thursday.

19 April,2012 06:50 pm

A team of five experienced doctors fought to save the life of the infant born with six legs because of a rare genetic condition. The baby was operated in National Institute of Child Heath (NICH) Karachi.After a hectic effort, the doctors successfully separated four legs from the body of the baby.According to head of NICH Dr Jamal Raza,the extra limbs were separated after surgery as the limbs were result of a genetic disease which would affect only one in a million or more babies.“It was strange that apparently an abnormal baby with six legs was as normal as other children,” he said.Doctors examined MRI, blood tests, CT scan reports and other test and later took the decision to do surgery which lasted for eight-hours in different phases.The infant was born to the wife of an X-ray technician a week ago.Imran Shaikh, the babys father who lives in Sukkur, said he was grateful his son was treated. We are a poor family. I am thankful to the government and doctors for helping us successful operating my baby, he told media men here.