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TTO – Doctors in India are preparing to perform a rare surgery to restore a normal life to a two-year-old girl with 4 arms and 4 legs.

Baby Lakshmi Tatma is attached to her headless “parasitic” twin sister in her pelvis. Doctors in Bangalore city said they will take turns performing the surgery to separate Lakshmi’s spine and kidneys from her twin sister. They hope the baby will live until he is a teenager.

“We were mentally prepared for the surgery to last continuously for 40 hours, but if everything goes well, the surgery will end much sooner,” said Dr. Sharan Patil, head of the surgery. .

Dr. Patil said he went to the small village near the Nepal border where the girl was living after hearing about this case and was “horrified to find the girl suffering from constant fever without any symptoms.” medicine”.

The villagers and some of the baby’s relatives do not care much about the surgery, but the girl’s parents are very hopeful about the medical community’s intervention. In the eyes of some villagers, she is the embodiment of the goddess of wealth Lakshmi, who has many arms and legs.

Cases of conjoined twins are very rare, occurring in about 1/200,000 children. The survival rate of these babies is only about 5% – 25%.