KARACHI (AFP) - Doctors in Pakistan say they have successfully
operated to save the life of a baby born with six legs due to a
rare genetic condition, hospital officials said on Thursday.
'A team of five experienced doctors have successfully separated
the extra legs and limbs from the baby today. He is very much safe
and secure,' said Dr Jamal Raza, the director of National Institute
of the Child Health in Karachi. Dr Raza said it was a case of
parasitic conjunction - more than one baby joined together but only
one of them fully formed.
The boy was born to the wife of an X-ray technician a couple of
weeks ago in Sukkur city, around 450km north of Karachi, and was
moved to Karachi for treatment early this week.
'The extra limbs and legs were the result of a genetic disease
which would affect only one in a million or more babies,' the
doctor said.