“Pakistani doctors have their work cut out, as they battle the odds to save a newborn baby with a rare genetic condition that left him with six legs. The week old boy is believed to be one half of parasitic twins; the other twin was born prematurely and incompletely developed, which resulted in the second child having the extra legs. According to ColumnPK, the director of the National Institute of Child Health in Karachi, Jamal Raza, said that doctors at the institute are fighting to save the newborn, which remains in an intensive care unit ward. Doctors are planning to operate on the boy and were considering asking for help from foreign experts with more experience in the rare disease, which afflicts just one in one million babies.” w/ photos + video
