Lakshmi steadily recovering: Doctors

BANGALORE: Over a fortnight after having undergone a complicated surgery to separate her from a parasitic twin, two-year old Lakshmi, was recovering well with her surgical wounds having almost healed.

"She is doing well and her surgical wounds have almost healed," Dr Sharan Patil, chairman of the Sparsh Hospital which had conducted the 27-hour surgery, told.
   
"We have still not started her physiotherapy sessions, but we hope to begin her sessions soon," he said.
   
Right now, Lakshmi, who has been moved to a special ward, was spending a lot of time with her family.

She is being carried by her parents and nurses around the hospital. "We also allowed her to move around in a wheel chair," Patil said.

"Lakshmi is looking very happy and is getting better," he said. However, it was yet unclear when she would be discharged from the hospital.
   
"We have to wait till her rehabilitation sessions begin, before deciding the next course of action," he said.
   
The panel of doctors who operated on Lakshmi continue to check on her "a couple of times a day", to ensure she was doing fine with no complications, he said.
   
Lakshmi, a native of Bihar was brought to the Bangalore- based Sparsh hospital on October three. She had arrived at the hospital with eight limbs and torso of a parasitic twin fused to her pelvis.

She had been operated on to remove the extraneous limbs and restructure parts of her body.