Baby 8 Limbs

New Delhi: A team of doctors in Delhi has successfully operated upon a seven-month-old baby from Iraq who was suffering from polymelia – a birth defect involving limbs – to give him a new lease of life. Polymelia is a birth defect in which the affected individual has more than the usual number of limbs and, in this case, the boy, named Karam wh...

A baby born with eight limbs, including two protruding from his stomach, has undergone surgery near Delhi to successfully remove the extra arms and legs, in an operation being hailed as a world first.

New Delhi: A team of doctors in Delhi has successfully operated upon a seven-month-old baby from Iraq who was suffering from polymelia – a birth defect involving limbs – to give him a new lease of life. Polymelia is a birth defect in which the affected individual has more than the usual number of limbs and, in this case, the boy, named Karam wh...

A baby born with eight limbs, including two protruding from his stomach, has undergone surgery near Delhi to successfully remove the extra arms and legs, in an operation being hailed as a world first.