amputee

Crystal Chigbu, the Nigerian woman helping amputee children walk again

Doctors in Nigeria’s economic nerve, Lagos in 2009 told Crystal Chigbu that her daughter Beulah had tibial hemimelia – six days after her birth.  The incidence of tibial hemimelia has been estimated to be one in one million live births, making it one of the rarest congenital lower-limb deformities seen. The doctors advised Chigbu and her husband…