A baby girl has been born with three arms in India due to a rare condition that only affects one in a million infants. The newborn, who is just four days old, has two arms in the correct place but she also a has a third arm joined to her back near the spinal cord.
Her father Waqar Ahmed, from the Taunsa Sharif sub-division of Dera Ghazi Khan, took his daughter to hospital after she was born on Monday.She was then transferred to Nishtar Hospital where staff are consulting experts about the possibility of operating on the third armDr Ghulam Shabbir said the baby girl suffers from a rare condition called Polymelia, which causes a person to be born with extra limbs, often arms or legs. Dr Shabbir told The Express Tribune that an amputation of the extra limb would be the first operation of its kind at the hospital
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