A baby girl baffled doctors and nurses as she was born with three heads due to an unknown condition.
The child from Uttar Pradesh in India also shocked her family members when she was born with two big protrusions formed from the back of her head, doctors are also left stunned.
Her mother delivered her at a health center after suffering severe pain before going into labor. Doctors said that the girl’s mother hadn’t experienced any complications throughout the pregnancy.
The mother was then referred to the District Hospital in Etah because the health center does not have enough proper medical equipment and facilities.
Bijji Thakur, one of the witnesses of the birth, shared: “The girl child had three heads. She looked like an alien.”
Medics will conduct a Magnetic Resonance Imaging scan to determine the baby’s medical condition.
Rajesh Thakur, the Chief Medical Superintendent of District Hospital in Etah, said: “This is a very rare medical condition.
“The child’s body has not fully developed. We will perform an MRI scan and then perform a surgery to separate the ‘heads’.”
Even though it’s rare, there are already many cases of babies being born with two or more heads around the globe – a condition called encephalocele.
The Great Ormon Street Hospital’s website said that an encephalocele is a “a rare congenital (present at birth) type of neural tube defect where part of the skull has not formed properly so a portion of brain tissue and associated structures are outside the skull.
“The protruding sac may be covered with skin or it may be covered with a thin membrane.”
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