Surgery success on girl with 8 limbs !

Doctors operated on Lakshmi, the two-year-old girl born with eight limbs. "The surgery has been successful and Lakshmi is stable," said a doctor at the Sparsh Hospital. The little girl, is now recovering after a team of more than 30 surgeons in Bangalore worked to remove the twin's limbs and organs and separate the fused spines. Lakshmi was born joined to a "parasitic twin" that stopped developing in the mother's womb. The surviving foetus absorbed the limbs, kidneys and other body parts of the undeveloped foetus.

Girl with 8 limbs

Lakshmi Tatma is a little girl born in India with 8 limbs. Many think that she is the reincarnation of Lakshmi, Hindu goddess of wealth who has four arms. She will be getting surgery to fix the deformity. Doctors in India have begun operating on a Lakshmi Tatma who was born with four arms and four legs. Her condition is known as "parasitic twin”