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Baby born with HEART OUTSIDE HIS BODY undergoes surgery

New Delhi : India | 3 months ago  
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  • Baby born with external heart undergoes surgery
    Baby born with external heart undergoes surgery
    Posted by: RaulDeSouza
    Baby born with external heart undergoes surgery
Baby born with external heart undergoes surgery

In India a 10 year old boy who was born with his heart'Jutting Out' his body is recovering from a surgery whcih had to be performed on him to put his heart back inside his body.

He was brought to All India Institute of Medical Sciences in a non air-conditioned train wrapped inside a thin towel because his parents are the very poor labour of India.

The Doctors there performed a three hour surgery on him to push the lungs aside alongwith the liver to set the heart back in its place so that it can beat properly.

"We had to literally create a home for the heart in the baby's body but I am glad he is showing signs of recovery," Bishoi the doctor said.

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