In the Indian district of Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh, a child was born with sirenomelia, or mermaid syndrome. He lived for less than an hour and passed away, according to The Times of India on Sunday 28 July. As the newspaper notes, the 22-year-old pregnant woman was taken to a local hospital on Saturday, July 27. According to the doctors, the birth went well, however, when the baby was born, the doctors were shocked: the baby was born with fused legs and was very weak. At the same time, it was not even possible to establish the sex of the child.
Mermaid baby born in India
In the Indian district of Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh, a child was born with sirenomelia, or mermaid syndrome. He lived for less than an hour and passed away, according to The Times of India on Sunday 28 July. As the newspaper notes, the 22-year-old pregnant woman was taken to a local hospital on Saturday, July 27. According to the doctors, the birth went well, however, when the baby was born, the doctors were shocked: the baby was born with fused legs and was very weak. At the same time, it was not even possible to establish the sex of the child.
The delivering doctors offered to urgently transport the baby to the district hospital in the district capital, Lakhimpur, where he could receive the necessary medical care. However, they did not have time to do this - the child died before his parents made a decision. Earlier in July, it was reported that a girl was born in Uttar Pradesh with encephalocele, a congenital malformation of the skull and brain, in which part of the brain substance is outside the cranium. Due to the defect in bone tissue, when looking at the girl, it seemed that two more heads were growing on the back of her head.