A baby was born in Maharashtra with a rarity. At Swami Ramanand Teerth Rural Government Hospital in Ambajogai in Maharashtra earlier today, a baby was born with fused legs and the hands spread like fins. Alas, it died 15 minutes later.T he baby’s mother Diksha kamble(25) was admitted in the hospital at 7:00 AM today. On birth the infant weighed 1.8kg. The baby’s upper body was functional and the lower body not developed. The infant’s gender was unclear due to the fusion of the lower extremities.
Doctors made it clear that the baby was affected by Sirenomelia or Mermaid’s Syndrome. It is a rare congenital developmental disease characterized by the anomalies of the spine and lower limbs. The infants who get affected are born with a partial or complete fusion of the legs. This disease is life threatening as its marked by rotation and fusion of sufferer’s legs. The deformity makes the limb look like a tail inside the womb.
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The doctor said that baby’s mother is safe and added that Diksha and her husband are laborers engaged in cutting sugarcane. As per the doctor’s account, Diskshita had done sonography at the eighth month of her pregnancy but did not take any medicine that time.
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