A baby girl was born with two heads in Brahmanbaria on Wednesday and is currently undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).
She was brought to Dhaka around 3:15am yesterday after she started having breathing difficulties, her father Mohammad Jamal told the Dhaka Tribune.
Abu Kawsar, owner of the Standard Hospital of Total Healthcare in Brahmanbaria, 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.
However, Dr Abid Hossain Mollah, head of the DMCH’s Neonatal Unit, said she also has two hearts.
“She has respiratory difficulties and is currently being treated in an incubator at the Neonatal Unit of the DMCH,” he told the Dhaka Tribune.
He is leading a four-member committee formed at the hospital for the baby’s treatment and said the committee would decide if she would be taken to surgery.
Jamal, a poor farmer originally from Habiganj, said he did not have the money to treat his daughter.
“I did not even have the money to bring her to Dhaka. The doctors at Brahmanbaria gave me Tk2,000 so that I could bring her here,” he told the Dhaka Tribune.
He said he was worried about his daughter’s well-being.
Jamal and his wife, Ferdousi Ara Begum, 26, have two more children aged eight and four.
