Happy days: Choity with her mother Shima relaxing in the hospital after the surgery. inset: The x-ray showing the third leg. — AFP
SYDNEY: A girl born with three legs – because body parts of a twin had grown inside her – was returning home to Bangladesh after complex and rare surgery in Australia enabled her to walk and run, her doctor said.
Three-year-old Choity Khatun was given little prospect of survival until she was brought to Melbourne last year by Australian charity Children First Foundation. A team of surgeons spent several months mapping out a procedure to reconstruct her anatomy.
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