WOMAN GIVES BIRTH TO RARE CONJOINED TWINS WITH 3 ARMS AND SHARED ORGANS...

A woman has given birth to conjoined twins who have one body with three arms. Babita Ahirwar, 21, and husband Jaswant Singh had been told they were expecting twins, but doctors realised something was amiss 34 weeks into the pregnancy. They were told that an ultrasound revealed the very rare form of conjoined twins.

Jaswant said: ‘My wife fainted after she saw the baby. We are shocked. It is unbelievable. Everyone is shocked to see them. We cannot believe our child has two heads.

‘We were told after ultrasound that we are going to have twins. We were very happy to have two kids but it is one baby with two heads.

‘This is my baby and I will raise him as he is. I am yet to hold him in my hands. People are saying many things but he is my baby and I will take him home.

‘I do not have money for an operation. As long as he is alive, I will love him and take care of him.’

The babies share internal organs and are now under round-the-clock observation. Child specialist at their district hospital in India, Dr Surendra Sonkar said the baby would be moved to an advanced unit for further treatment.

She said: ‘They are a case of conjoined twins. We are taking care of baby and will take opinion of expert doctors in Bhopal and Delhi, who had earlier done the operation of such kids.’ Dr Pratibha Oswal said: ‘This is the first child of the woman, who was married one and a half years ago.

‘She had come to the hospital on the 35th week of the pregnancy and during the ultrasound we found she is carrying conjoined twins.

WOMAN BORN WITH 12 FINGERS AND 20 TOES BRANDED A WITCH BY HER NEIGHBOURS....

A woman born with 12 fingers and 20 toes has described how neighbours ‘keep away’ from her because they think she’s a witch.

Kumar Nayak, 63, has lived with the abnormality since birth and has never been able to afford treatment. She says others living in the same town of Ganjam, in the Indian state of Odisha, either ‘keep away’ or give her abuse because of her rare condition.

‘I was born with this defect and I couldn’t be treated as we belonged to a poor family,’ she said.

‘It has been 63 years I have been in the condition I am today. The residents nearby believe that I am a witch and keep away from me.

‘But sometimes more visitors come to see my condition. I am forced to stay indoors as I am treated differently.’

However, one sympathetic neighbour added: ‘I know that she has a medical problem and it has nothing to do with what others believe her to be. ‘I feel so sorry for her that she cannot even afford to get herself treated.’