Madhya Pradesh: Woman Gives Birth To Baby With Two Heads And Three Hands
The incident took place in the Ratlam district of Madhya Pradesh. The child has been referred to Indore due to the seriousness and rareness of the case.
Conditions, such as genetic abnormalities, growth restriction, mechanical forces affect the baby in the uterus during development. In an unfortunate incident, a woman gave birth to a baby with two heads and three hands.
The incident took place in the Ratlam district of Madhya Pradesh. The child has been referred to Indore due to the seriousness and rareness of the case.
According to reports, the child's mother, Shaheen, is a resident of Javra. The child is born with two heads and three hands, and the third hand is towards the back between the two faces.
The Free Press Journal
According to pediatric surgeon Dr Brijesh Lahoti, the condition is called dicephalic parapagus. It is a rare form of partial twinning with two heads side by side on one torso.
¡°Such cases are rare and the condition of babies remains uncertain especially in the initial days due to which we have kept them under observation. We have not planned for any surgery on the patient,¡± Dr Lahoti told the media.
The child was referred to MY Hospital, Indore after being kept in Ratlam's SNCU for some time.
During the sonography, this baby appeared to be a twin.
India Today
SNCU in-charge Dr Naved Qureshi said that the condition of the child is critical, and in such cases, many children either die in the womb or within 48 hours of birth. However, there is an option for surgery in such cases. But 60 to 70 percent of such children do not make it and die.
Presently, the child has been admitted to the ICU of MY Hospital, Indore while the mother is still in Ratlam Hospital.
A similar incident had happened back in 2019 when a then-23-year-old woman gave birth to a boy with two heads and three hands at a hospital in Madhya Pradesh¡¯s Vidisha district.
After birth, the child was kept in the hospital¡¯s Intensive Care Unit (ICU). However, his condition deteriorated and he was shifted to a hospital in Bhopal for advanced health care.
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