A seven-month-old infant is set to go under the knife at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital after she was found to be carrying a foetus.
The patient, Sajia jannat, is the daughter of Shafiqul Islam and Anju Khatun from Jamalpur.
The father, a cycle mechanic in Gazipur Natunbazar, said they first noticed that his daughter’s stomach was much larger than natural when Sajia was four months old. When they contacted doctors in Jamalpur, they were told that Sajia had a tumour in her stomach.
The parents then took the child to Mymensingh, where doctors found a foetus developing inside her, and referred the case to the Dhaka Medical College immediately.
The surgery is scheduled on March 8, the parents informed.
However, the duty doctor, asking not to be named, said the date will be finalised after a board meeting on Tuesday.