Baby with two heads born in Bangladesh

Baby with two heads born in Bangladesh

Baby with two heads born in Bangladesh

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.