Saturday, March 15, 2014

'Baby girl with two heads' born in Sonepat; father denies to accept

New Delhi/Sonepat: In a rare case of conjoined twins, a 26-year-old woman gave birth to conjoined twins, who have two heads but share one body in Sonepat district of Haryana on Thursday. The girls were born to a wife of a labourer from Bihar. Doctors said that the condition of the twins is called 'dicephalus parapagus', where two bodies are fused from the upper thorax to lower belly.. The child with two heads is striving for its survival and has been referred to AIIMS, New Delhi. According to the doctors, the twins have two heads, one lung for each head, two necks and two spines, but only one body, two separate oesophaguses, a single stomach and heart. "Most of the vital organs are shared and it may not be possible to separate the twins," said a senior doctor at Sonepat's Cygnus JK Hindu Hospital, where the twins were born. The twins are currently in the hospital’s intensive care unit and are struggling for life. Reportedly, the father of the twins has refused to accept them.

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