Chennai Doctors Perform Rare Hernia Surgery On Month-Old Baby

The boy, born at just 28 weeks to Manju, a housewife, and Moorthy who works as a daily wage laborer, underwent surgery on the 23rd day after his birth while under general anesthesia.

A team of doctors here successfully performed a complex, emergency surgery to save the life of a critically premature baby boy with Amyand's hernia - a rare condition where the appendix is located in the groin.

"It is only the fourth case of its kind in medical history in the world," said SRM Global Hospitals in a statement on Thursday.

The boy, born at just 28 weeks to Manju, a housewife, and Moorthy who works as a daily wage laborer, underwent surgery on the 23rd day after his birth while under general anesthesia.