The neck of an Indian boy after 13 years of suffering

The 13-year-old Indian boy suffers from a rare condition that has made his neck hang on his chest at 180 degrees, making him a pariah in his village.

Mahindra Aheiroar suffers from a rare condition called congenital muscular dystrophy, which makes the muscles of his neck so weak that he can not bear his head and remains permanently dependent. Although his father Mukesh, 41, and his mother, Sumitra, 36, Years in his presentation to the doctors, but to no avail.

After the British newspaper Daily Mail published a report on the boy's condition, a British woman from Liverpool, Julie Jones, decided to create a donation page in his name on the Internet and was able to raise approximately $ 18,000 for the operation.

Jones found the doctor, who was ready for the procedure, a spinal surgeon, Dr. Rajagubalan Krishnan, who worked in British government hospitals for 15 years, before returning to India, and settled in Apollo Hospital in Delhi.

According to the newspaper "Daily Mail" British, this operation is the first of its kind perhaps in the world, it lasted for 10 hours, during which doctors removed all the bones of the neck and replace bones from the basin, and then fixed by metal plates to the cervical straightening the neck.