A 7-year-old girl went to school with her new artificial leg and the reaction of her classmates was priceless

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May 4, 2017 10:57 AM

Footage of seven-year-old Anu showing off her new prosthetic blade in the playground emerged on social media this week.

Anu had her right leg amputated soon after birth.

A seven-year old girl saw a priceless reaction from her classmates this week when she showed up at her Birmingham school with an artificial leg.

The footage of the playground, posted on Twitter this week by BBC Midlands, shows Anu, who had her leg amputated soon after birth, showing off her new pink prosthetic blade.

As she approaches, her group of friends run over and one asks, "Is that your new pink leg?"

Her friends gather around her to take a closer look at the blade exclaiming "wow," and two of the girls give her a hug.

Anu then runs off and is later seen walking around the playground hand-in-hand with a friend.

The heart-warming BBC Midlands footage, which was posted on Twitter yesterday, can be seen below.

The custom-made blade was made possible thanks to an injection of £1.5 million in funding to the NHS in the 2016 budget, according to The Telegraph.

Of the new NHS funding, £500,000 was earmarked specifically for spending on “child sports prosthetics” for 500 amputee children.

But the funding will run out in March 2017, according to The Independent, and Anu's blade, along with all of the other amputees who are fitted with prosthetics, will need replacing every two years.

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