Indian doctors performed a 90-minute operation, during which they rid the newborn girl of the head of the twin parasite. At the moment, the child is in the intensive care unit.
On May 13, 2014, in a small Indian hospital, 22-year-old Amlekha Bairva gave birth to a daughter with a rare pathology - the head of an underdeveloped twin parasite was on the newborn's body.
On the same evening, the girl was admitted to a hospital in Jaipur, Rajasthan.
However, upon arrival at the hospital, the child developed physiological jaundice, so the specialists were unable to perform surgery, reports the Daily News. After waiting for the stabilization of the state of the body's enzyme systems, on May 26, the surgeons began the operation and after 90 minutes of hard work saved the girl from an additional head.
“It was a case when in the early stages of embryonic development, one embryo begins to develop at the expense of the other, and then the underdeveloped body of the twin becomes part of the formed fetus,” explained the children's surgeon Chetan Sharm, who operated on a newborn with a rare pathology. “We were able to successfully separate the head and restore the anterior abdominal wall. But for a full recovery, we will have to do the second and last surgery to remove the umbilical hernia, scheduled in a month. Then it will be a perfectly healthy child without medical complications."
Now the girl is under the close supervision of doctors of the neonatal intensive care unit, who assess her condition as satisfactory.
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The little patient's 29-year-old father, Ramjilal Bairva, is not tired of thanking the surgeons and is looking forward to seeing his daughter out of the hospital.
“I am very happy and grateful to the doctors and God for the successful operation,” he says. - I could not take my child in my arms, but now I will have the opportunity to hug him. She is the most beautiful girl and I am glad to know that in the future she will not have problems due to intrauterine malformation."