CHINA: A devastated mother in china is begging doctors to help her 7 month old son, who has a 3 inch tail sticking out of his back. The little baby Xiao Wei was born with spina bifida which means his vertebrae did not from properly. The outcome is a growth that protrudes out of baby back spine & is still growing. Xiao mother Chen from Guangdong Province, said “we have requested the surgeons to remove the tail of the baby but they tell us it not that easy”
The Surgeon Huang Chuanping explained that “The growth is well developed & now it is about 10 centimetres. If we remove it off it will grow again. We requirement to repair the spinal canal first to stop it reoccurring, “Myelomeningocele” is the common types of Spina Bifida, it is affecting one in eight hundreds babies born.
