Akshat Saxena, a one-year-old boy from Uttar Pradesh was born with 34 digits. This condition in which a person has more than five fingers per hand or five toes per foot, is known as Polydactyly, and is a genetic anomaly that can be hereditary. Akshat has broken the Guinness World Records previously held by a six-year-old boy in China with 31 digits.
With seven fingers on each hand and ten toes on each foot, Akshat had to undergo a series of surgeries to remove the excess digits. He was born without thumbs, so the doctors worked to construct opposable digits from the severed fingers. The boy’s mother, Amrita Saxena says, “'I was so happy to see my baby as it was our first child. But later, when I saw his fingers, I was shocked and surprised.”
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