Showing posts with label Boy with giant hands gets pioneering surgery after being dubbed 'the devil' (photos). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boy with giant hands gets pioneering surgery after being dubbed 'the devil' (photos). Show all posts

Saturday, August 8, 2015

Boy with giant hands gets pioneering surgery after being dubbed 'the devil' (photos)

8 year old Kaleem suffers from a rare medical condition called macrodactyly, that means he has giant-sized hands. He's been excluded from school and cast out in his local village in India because he is believed to be "the child of the devil". Kaleem's own uncle believes that because his mother visited latrines when she was pregnant with Kaleem that it could have infected him with "demons".