8-year-old boy from Jharkhand has the world’s biggest hands

Mohammad Kaleem always stood out from the rest of village kids. Suffering from a rare form of giantism, his hands were disproportionately large, earning him the title of the “devil’s child” in the small village of Jharkhand state in India. But now things will change for the better as Kaleem has undergone a major surgery to reduce the massive size of his hands.

The eight-year-old boy had immense difficulty trying to carry out even simply daily chores like eating, taking a bath and dressing himself. He was refused admission to the local school and was regularly bullied.

But after his plight was highlighted by several international newspapers, Kaleem and his family were approached by medical experts in south India, who diagnosed his condition as macrodactyly, or localised giantism.