After surgery, Lakshmi moves toes and hands

Bringing cheers to her parents and the team of doctors, two-year-old Lakshmi on moved her toes and hands, a day after she was separated from a parasitic conjoined twin in a marathon surgery at a private hospital in Bangalore.

Bringing cheers to her parents and the team of doctors, two-year-old Lakshmi on Thursday moved her toes and hands, a day after she was separated from a parasitic conjoined twin in a marathon surgery at a private hospital in Bangalore.

“Lakshmi has moved her toes and hands for the first time and opened her eyes briefly,” Dr Sharan Patil who led the team of surgeons said.

“She is progressing in the right direction. We have had no set backs so far,” he said.

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The Sparsh Hospital, a part of the Narayan Health City, which had performed the complex and one of the rare surgeries free of cost has created a separate ICU for the child and drafted a medical team exclusively to monitor her health condition round-the-clock.

“Lakshmi is safe. All her parameters are okay. We had a good night and nothing untoward happened,” Patil said.

Lakshmi has been coping up with ventilators well and was able to withstand the complicated surgical procedure that lasted for 27 hours, he said.

The doctors have decided to decrease the amount of sedatives being administered to Lakshmi slowly and the girl was expected to be on ventilators for at least next 24 hours, he said.

Patil hoped that Lakshmi will show steady progress.

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