A newborn suffering from a rare congenital disease, Clubfoot, was successfully treated for his condition by doctors at Vasai Virar Mira Bhayandar Municipal Corporation hospital. The treatment took a month-and-a-half where doctors cured the child by using plaster therapy instead of medication or injections. The plaster was cut by the medical team on Saturday. Clubfoot is a birth defect where children are born with twisted ankles. Its cause is still unknown. A rare condition, there are fewer than one million cases of clubfoot reported in India every year.

Aditya Vishwakarma was born on July 10 with twisted legs, which alarmed his parents who then contacted Dr Alhad Nandkumar Raut, an orthopaedic surgeon at DM Petit Municipal Hospital, Vasai. Raut has also treated other children born with clubfoot in the last one year using the same technique. “The child’s mother was admitted at the hospital in July for delivery. During the procedure, doctors found that both his legs were in a twisted position. We contacted Dr Raut to take over the case then,” the hospital said.