Clubfoot: Why it happens and how doctors treat it
Daily Monitor Monday February 15 2021 Clubfoot is a condition in which a newborn's foot or feet appear to be rotated internally at the ankle. PHOTO/FILE. Advertisement Every Thursday, a group of mothers travel to Mulago National Referral Hospital. These are mothers of children born with clubfoot hoping to meet experts who will save their children’s feet from deformation. Diriisa Kitemagwa, the principal orthopaedics clinical officer at the hospital, says clubfoot is a range of foot abnormalities usually present at birth (congenital) in which a baby’s foot is twisted out of shape or posi...