Yahoo – AFP,
12 Nov 2015
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Bangladeshi baby girl born with two heads receives medical care at a
hospital
in Brahmanbaria, east of Dhaka on November 12, 2015 (AFP Photo)
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Dhaka (AFP)
- Doctors at a Bangladesh hospital were treating a baby girl born with two
heads on Thursday, medical officials and the newborn's father said.
The baby
was born late Wednesday and is now being treated for breathing difficulties
after being shifted to the intensive care unit of the country's largest
hospital in Dhaka.
"When
I saw my baby, I was awestruck. She has two fully developed heads. She is
eating with two mouths and breathing with two noses," her father, Jamal
Mia, said.
"Still,
I thank Allah that she and the mother are now okay," Mia told AFP.
Abu Kawsar,
owner of the Standard Hospital of Total Healthcare where the baby was born by
Cesarean section, said initial tests showed she only has one set of vital
organs.
"Except
for having two heads, the newborn has the rest of her organs and limbs like a
normal newborn," Kawsar told AFP.
Thousands
of people thronged the hospital in Brahmanbaria, where she was born, some 120
kilometres (75 miles) east of Dhaka, after news spread of the "miracle
newborn".
"The
entire town poured into the clinic. There were thousands of people with some of
them coming from the nearby villages," he said.
"It's
good that the baby has been shifted to Dhaka. Otherwise, it would have been
difficult for us to control the crowd."
Her father,
Mia, a poor farm labourer, said he was concerned about how he would manage to
care for the baby if extra expenses were needed.
"I
feel sad for her. She has been born to a poor man. I don't have money to even
properly treat her mother," he said.
A baby was
also born in Bangladesh with two heads in 2008 but later died.
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