A 2-year-old Indian girl born with 8 limbs was released from a hospital on Saturday after her successful surgery, media reports said Monday.
Lakshmi Tatma was born joined by a "parasitic twin" which gave her four arms and four legs.
Lakshmi underwent a 40-hour operation to remove half of her limbs on Nov. 6. A team of more than 30 surgeons performed in the surgeon and they also transplanted a kidney from the twin and reconstructed Lakshmi's pelvic area.
Shambhu, unseen, carries his daughter Lakshmi during a press conference at Sparsha Hospital in Banglore, India, Nov. 13, 2007. Nearly a week after surgeons removed the extra limbs from the Indian girl born with four arms and four legs, the bright-eyed 2-year-old made her first public appearance Tuesday after leaving the hospital's intensive care unit. (photo: agencies via China Daily)
"Lakshmi is fine and stable," Dr. Sharan Patil, the surgeon in charge of the complicated operation at Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore, said. "She should face no problem in walking," the doctor added.
"Lakshmi is normal, eating well and in good spirits," he said. "She has responded well to the post-operation treatment."
The little girl may need more surgery to correct club feet.
Lakshmi's parents said they were taking her back to their rural village in eastern Bihar state where she had been revered by some as an incarnation of the four-armed Hindu goddess she was named after.
(Agencies via Xinhua December 17, 2007)
