Bangalore: Two-year-old Lakshmi, who underwent a rare and risky surgery to separate her from a parasitic twin, has been responding well to the treatment and had begun taking oral semi-solid feeds, doctors at the Bangalore-based Sparsh Hospital said.
They said Lakshmi is cheerful, recovering well and the invasive monitoring on her has been removed.
The doctors had picked Lakshmi from a remote village in Bihar and operated upon her to rid of her parasitic twin. The toddler had been put through a 27-hour-long surgery to remove her extraneous limbs and reconstruct some of her body parts.
A medical bulletin released by the hospital said Lakshmi “is now able to tolerate oral semi-solid feeds. Her clinical and biochemical parameters continue to be within normal limits.”
The entire family including parents Poonam and Shambu and brother Mithilesh had been spending a lot of time with her over the last couple of days and the child was responding well to this interaction.
Lakshmi had two pairs of legs and arms formed at either end of the two adjoining torsos, thus appearing as a child with eight limbs.
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