19 year old Zainabu Dahiru on Sunday, delivered a baby with two heads and no eyes at the general hospital Malumfashi, Kastina State. The baby is also said to have cleft palate and stunted fingers.
The baby's father, Malam Dahiru Umar, told NAN on Tuesday that the baby was born through normal delivery. Umar, a 25-year-old petty trader, said the baby was their first and his wife attended regular ante-natal care during pregnancy. He said he cried on sighting the baby and sympathetic hospital workers told him that they could not offer any medical assistance beside the delivery.
When shown the photograph of the baby, a gynaecologist at the Garki Hospital, Abuja, Dr Kayode Obende, said the condition was called encephacele -a rare type of neural tube defect (NTD) present at birth that affects the brain.
Right now, Umar is appealing to the government, wealthy individuals and non-governmental organisations for support.
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