Baby boy with 6 legs

The doctors at NICH Karachi, Pakistan on successfully operated on the six-legged baby boy on Thursday. 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. Mr Sheikh said he had married Afshan, 27, about five years back and this was their first child. According to experts, the term “conjoined twins” is used to refer to identical twins that are attached to each other in the womb. Estimated to take place in one in every 50,000 to 100,000 births, a higher prevalence of conjoined twins is reported in southern Asia and Africa A doctor at the NICH said that around 75 per cent of conjoined twins died because of medical complications resulting from the condition. Most of the time, surgery was used to separate the twins if it had been determined, there was no risk of killing them.