A baby girl born without all four limbs due to a rare genetic disorder has left doctors and family members baffled, in central India's Madhya Pradesh.
The child was delivered in the village of Sakla, in Sironj Tehsil, Vidisha, on June 26.
According to reports, the baby was diagnosed with an autosomal recessive congenital disorder, called Tetra-Amelia, characterised by the absence of all four limbs.
A video shows a woman holding the baby in her arms.
The infant who is wrapped in a cloth can be seen without both hands or legs.
Dr Suresh Aggarwal, a paediatrician at Rajiv Gandhi Smriti Hospital, Sironj, suggested that the baby is perfectly healthy.
Tetra-Amelia syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by mutations in the WNT3 gene and is extremely rare.
According to Bhopal CMHO and paediatrician Dr Prabhakar Tiwari, the syndrome affects one in 100,000 newborns. He said this is the first such case of his career.
A 2011 study by Dr Eva Bermejo-Sanchez of the Research Centre on Congenital Anomalies (CIAC) at the Instituto de Salud Carlos III in Spain shows that the disorder occurs in roughly one out of every 71,000 pregnancies.
The lungs are underdeveloped in many cases, making breathing difficult or impossible.
The doctors suggest the baby will be taken in for further assessments to check if her internal organs have developed as per norms.
The case follows Nicholas James Vujicic, born in 1982, an Australian Christian evangelist and motivational speaker born with tetra-amelia syndrome.
Author of several books and travelling over 44 countries, Vujicic advocates positivity and motivation even after being born without all four limbs.
