The operation was very complicated since the child's organs were attached to the foetus.
The operation was very complicated since the child's organs were attached to the foetus.
When a one year old child in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu was taken to a hospital, a very unexpected and rare phenomenon shocked doctors and her family, when a 3.5 Kg foetus was removed from the child’s body.
Removed after surgery at a private hospital, the foetus was found to be feeding off the girl’s blood supply and nutrition, which led to suppression of her organs. The child was born to daily wage labourers, who had ignored her larger than normal stomach.
Doctors at Shri Ganapathy Krishna Hospital told The Time Of India that, -"It was only after the child began having issues breathing and having food and the stomach had grown to a noticeably abnormal size did they go to a private doctor in Erode,-"
The doctors initially believed that the baby had a large cyst in her abdomen and referred her to Dr Vijayagiri, who later suspected it to be fetus-in-fetu, and managed to remove the foetus, which has some bones.
The removal was very complicated since the child’s organs, including her kidney, were attached to the foetus. The baby weighed 8 kg before surgery, and is now recovering.
