Lakshmi Tatma is just two years old but she was born with 8 limbs. This is surely an abnormal feature and it has attracted media attention worldwide. Doctors are carrying out a very complicated surgery in her body to make her condition normal.
Lakshmi Tatma is a very unlucky girl that she was born in to a poor family and was born with 8 limbs. Her family could never afford such treatment but fortunately, a group of doctors are helping her.
Her deformity makes it impossible for her to stand or walk, but doctors in Bangalore will perform a 40-hour surgery on Tuesday that might give her a chance.
She has extra limbs because she is joined to a parasitic twin, who stopped developing in her mother’s womb.
Lakshmi’s parents Shambhu and Poonam named her after the four-armed goddess of wealth, and it was their love for her that stopped them from selling Lakshmi to the highest bidder.
“We took her to a hospital in Delhi after her birth but some circus owners got to hear about her. They wanted to turn her into a freak show and offered us money, but we brought her back to the village,” says Shambhu, who has a farm in Bihar’s Terai region.
The parents of Lakshmi Tatma suffered a lot for their daughter but they loved their child and did not wish to sell her. It is common to see beggars with deformity in many Indian cities. In fact, the parents could earn a decent amount of money regularly by taking advantage of Lakshmi Tatma’s condition. Fortunately, Sparsh Hospital came forward and offered to carry out free treatment. I admire the parents of Lakshmi Tatma a lot as they did not use their daughter as a commodity. Many people consider Lakshmi Tatma as a miracle of God.