Chennai, May 17 -- A 5-year-old girl from Bangladesh suffering from Prader-Willi Syndrome, a rare genetic condition leading to extreme childhood obesity, underwent bariatric surgery at a private hospital in Chennai.
It was a first of its kind surgery performed in South India on five-year-old Mayesha Siddika, a native
of Chapainawabgang, Bangladesh, by a team comprising Dr. Anirudh Rajkumar, Advanced Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgeon and Joint Managing Director of Lifeline Group of Hospitals, along with Dr. JS Rajkumar, Chairman and Chief Surgeon.
Talking to reporters here on Saturday, they said her obesity was so severe that she could neither walk nor breathe properly, and was already battling hypertension, diabetes, early-stage fatty l...