Boy born with head hung at 180-degree angle passes away

A 13-year-old Indian boy who was born with his head hung at a ninety degree angle has died less than a year after he underwent a major surgery to fix it. Mahendra Ahirwar was afflicted by a rare condition called congenital myopathy which made his neck muscles so weak that his head would hang to one side. But things started looking up for the teenager after a mother-of-two from Liverpool set up a crowd-funding page to raise £12,000 for his treatment. He then had a 10-hour-long life-changing surgery performed by a former NHS surgeon Dr. Rajagopalan Krishnan, from Apollo Hospital and a team of other doctors. The complicated operation involved the removal of disks from his neck and replacing them with bone graft from the pelvis and then fitting a metal plate to secure the neck straight. “The most common cause of death in congenital myopathy is from cardiopulmonary complications. I think myopathy and poor chest muscles caught up with him in the end,” Dr Rajagopalan Krishnan told the Media