A one-and-a-half-year-old baby had its right hand amputated after it developed severe gangrene.
Mohammed Makir, a pre-term baby, was treated for severe hydrocephalus (a neurological disorder caused by excess cerebrospinal fluid in the brain) when he was five months old. Last week, the shunt inserted to remove the fluid was ejected when the baby passed stools.
The parents, Dastagir Meera and his wife Abdul Azeesa, took their child to the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital. The child underwent a three-and-a-half-hour surgery and was put on intravenous therapy. A day later, the intravenous line was changed from the left arm to the right arm.
