KARACHI, April 24: The 13-day-old baby who underwent a surgical treatment at the National Institute of Child Health for the removal of his four additional lower limbs was finally discharged on Tuesday.

The boy was active and in good health, said the doctors, when handed over to the family with advice to his father to bring him to the hospital again after six to eight weeks for an examination.

The baby, Umar Farooq, was born with four extra limbs on his lower abdomen at a government hospital in Sukkur on April 12. He was brought to the NICH by his father, Imran Ali Sheikh, on April 16.

Doctors at that time had described him a rare and complicated case as he was born completely developed, but carried limbs of his parasitic twin. He was operated upon on April 19.