karnal this mans heart beats on the right side but they say it is wrong yes 50yearold dr govardhan dhall an ent specialist in karnal civil hospital haryana is a mirror image of himself anatomically that is he was born with a condition called dextrocardia with situs inversus this means that all his organs are inverted on the wrong sidehis heart his liver kidneys bladder stomach pancreas lungs and spleen are all on the wrong side and inverted his intestine is folded the opposite waypopularly known as the topsyturvey doctor dhall leads an absolutely healthy life in his karnal home about 120 kilometres from delhi with his wife vinod daughter kriti 15 and son karan 12his daughter kriti remembers the day when she came to know about her fathers condition she says we were on an evening walk when i told him not to keep his cell phone on the left side pocket since his heart could get affected thats when he told me that his hearts not on the left side i was shocked i ran home to mom and asked her too they both then sat down with me and explained the entire situation to me it was unbelievable she smilesand just like everyone even his wife vinod was as stunned when dhall told her a few days after their marriage in 1986 i was scared initially but then i realised he was totally healthy so it was ok she smilesdhall himself came to know of the mirror image inside his body only when he was giving his medical test for admission in the rohtak medical college some 30 years agoi had a home delivery in ambala and since i was an absolutely normal baby my parents obviously never bothered to get me checked he says doweshowbellyad0 but when i was entering medical college the doctors took my test and realised that all my organs were on the wrong side they were stunned so was i they immediately admitted me in the hospital and checked me for three days dhall recalls with a nostalgic smile anyway he got admission as the most popular student of medicine because of his unusual conditionstatistics show that 01 per cent 1 in 10000 of the worlds population is affected by dextrocardia with situs inversus in which the organs are displaced during fetal developmentdr vijay trehan a delhibased cardiologist says if all the organs are inverted then most of the times the person would lead a normal life however he says the problem is when only the heart is isolated