Surgeons at a leading hospital in Faridabad have achieved a remarkable reconstructive milestone by restoring functional movement in the left arm of an 11-year-old girl from Mozambique who had lived since birth with brachial plexus palsy. Doctors described the case as particularly challenging because such corrective procedures are rarely attempted at this age, especially when long-standing muscle imbalance and joint contractures are present. The successful outcome has been hailed as both medically significant and deeply emotional for the family.
The child had travelled to India not for her own treatment, but to accompany her father, who was undergoing cancer care. Since birth, she had been unable to raise her left arm or bend her elbow due to birth brachial plexus palsy, a condition that affects upper limb movement when the network of nerves controlling the arm is injured during…
