Baby girl born in Madhya Pradesh with 2 heads! Condition critical

Indore: A 22-year-old woman gave birth to a girl with two heads and a single torso at a government hospital in Indore, officials said on Thursday, adding that doctors were making all efforts to save the newborn, PTI reported.

The baby girl was born through a caesarean section on Tuesday at Maharaja Tukojirao Hospital, weighing 2.8 kg. She was immediately admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit.

"She is gasping to breathe and facing other health issues due to congenital deformities. The baby has been placed on life support," senior paediatrician Dr Nilesh Jain told PTI.

The infant has two hearts, one of which is significantly underdeveloped, while the other shows considerable abnormalities, he said.

"In such cases, chances of long-term survival are extremely slim and surgical intervention is usually not feasible," said Dr Jain.

The doctor told Asian News International that the treatment of the baby is continuously going on smoothly and all the arrangements and facilities are made available for the same. However, the survival chances depend on the internal functioning of her organs, that is if they fail to function properly, the baby would have less chance to survive.

He added that the hospital used to perform surgeries on conjoined twins in at least once or twice every year, but in the current case, paediatric surgeons advise against surgery because of the placement of the baby's organs.

The condition where two heads are fused to a single torso occurs in approximately one in every two lakh births, the doctor said.

The hospital informed that the mother's health is fine.