Six In A Family With Heart On The ‘right Side’

Khuda Bakhsh, a farmer from Selro village here has asked the management of the Guinness Book of World Record to register has family as the largest Dextrocardia family in the world with heart at their right side

Khuda Bakhsh, a farmer from Selro village, has made a unique request to the Guinness Book of World Records. He seeks to register his family as the largest Dextrocardia family globally, with six members exhibiting this rare condition. Dextrocardia is a congenital abnormality where the heart points towards the right side of the chest instead of the left, affecting less than 1 percent of the population.

The family, residing in Selra village of Qambar Shahdadkot district in Sindh province, includes Khuda Bakhsh’s 53-year-old wife Ghulam Nasa, 60-year-old sister-in-law Faza, two sons named Irfan and Kamran, one-year-old daughter Sufita, and a 6-month-old grandson named Muhammad Hashar.

Despite this unique condition, Khuda Bakhsh emphasizes that all members of the family lead normal and healthy lives with their hearts on the right side. He believes his family to be the largest Dextrocardian family globally and hopes the Guinness Book of World Records will recognize them accordingly.

Local cardiologist Dr. Ameer Bux has expressed surprise at the occurrence of right-sided hearts in six individuals from the same family, emphasizing the rarity of such a phenomenon.