A seven-month-old baby from Iraq, suffering from polymelia, has been given a new lease of life, thanks to a team of doctors in a well-known hospital. Polymelia, a birth defect in which babies are born with more than the usual number of limbs, had a boy named Karam in a critical condition with eight limbs. Senior Consultant, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, from the hospital, told reporters, both the legs of the baby which were protruding out of the stomach were connected through his sternum (the breastbone) and there was no abdominal wall defect. His blood veins were also adjoined to his liver veins.
Using the complex microscopic technique, these veins were separated and then his legs protruding out of his stomach were removed from his body. The baby patient was in a bad state upon his arrival in the hospital for his surgery. He was only two-weeks-old at the time and had distorted…
