Choity Khatum, three, travelled from Bangladesh to Australia for the surgery Lizzie Parry Published: 12:20, 28 Apr 2017 Updated: 4:29, 29 Apr 2017 ...

Choity, had she survived in Bangladesh, would be seen as an object of curiosity and superstition. Her mother might have been rejected by a culture that blamed her for the child’s deformities.

Choity Khatun, who is three, was born with caudal twinning, meaning that part of a twin had developed in her pelvis. Australian surgeons spent months working out how to remove the extra limb and ...

WHEN Choity was born stunned doctors had no idea what to do, or even what to say to her mother. Responsibility to explain the unexplainable was passed to Choity’s father Asad Fakir.

Choity is outwardly healthy, but the third leg attached to the back of her pelvis meant her diagnosis was complicated, and the surgery to fix her even more so.

Choity was brought to Melbourne by the Children First Foundation. (Supplied) Her mother Shima Khatun said she did not understand what was wrong with Choity when she was first born.

Choity and her mother Shima are now returning to Bangladesh. Raf Epstein spoke to Associate Professor, Dr Chris Kimber, head of surgery at Monash Children’s Hospital.

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