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In Rawalpindi, a baby with two faces fights for survival
Published: September 25, 2011
RAWALPINDI:
Doctors at Holy Family Hospital (HFH) have been trying to save a baby born with two faces, as he has been having breathing problems. They have been unable to feed the baby through the mouth, sources told The Express Tribune.
The baby is the third child of a couple from Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Paediatric Ward Senior Registrar Dr Qaisar Aziz told The Express Tribune that the new born baby has been shifted to the intensive care unit of the children ward and was being take good care of.
The doctor, however, expressed low possibility for the survival of the child. The baby has two sets of eyes, noses, and lips, and one pair of ears.
“As feeding through the mouth is not possible [at present], he is being fed through a naso-gastric tube. The two faces are angled to each other,” said Dr Qaisar.
The doctors explained that medically such a condition comes under the category of Craniofacial malformation.
It is the first case of its kind in the history of the hospital, which was established before the creation of Pakistan.
Cases of babies with joint heads or bodies have been treated by doctors, but a baby with two faces “is a novel phenomenon and needs special attention”, said the senior registrar.
The baby’s parents, Shahida Perveen and Khalil Ahmed, have come from Palandir of AJK and the couple is reluctant to interact with media.
The last ultrasound test of the woman, taken just before the delivery of, had shown the baby boy as normal and healthy.
Dr Qaisar further said there were “minimal chances” of the baby’s survival, who weighed 3.2 kg.
Senior doctors said such birth abnormalities are often due to genetic reasons largely resulting from inter-cousin marriages.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 25th, 2011.
In Rawalpindi, a baby with two faces fights for survival – The Express Tribune
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i hope the child survives

Its a moral dilemma. Should the child survive, it will be a very difficult life with complications every day of its life. Would keeping it alive be more cruel then letting it pass away? I don't know and I hope I never have to take such decisions.
 
Its a moral dilemma. Should the child survive, it will be a very difficult life with complications every day of its life. Would keeping it alive be more cruel then letting it pass away? I don't know and I hope I never have to take such decisions.

i agree , how helpless a man can be in such a situation , what might be going through the father of this child , while seeing his child suffer in pain daily , that is the worst thing a man can face , may god find a way out for this little child.
 
May Allah keeps him alive and this kid lives with happiness, joy and his life fills with virtues and keeps bullies away from him.
 
Its a moral dilemma. Should the child survive, it will be a very difficult life with complications every day of its life. Would keeping it alive be more cruel then letting it pass away? I don't know and I hope I never have to take such decisions.

forget the moral part, if the child has 2 brains then chances of survival don't exist.

The Indian baby died , lets hope the Pakistani one survives

 
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Are the parents of this unfortunate child known to be cousins?

Certain malformations are random mutations.

Apparently they are, unless the 11 o clock news are BS.
This thing of marrying within the family has to end in Pakistan..
Deformities, lower IQ's.. all come from these things.
 
Apparently they are, unless the 11 o clock news are BS.
This thing of marrying within the family has to end in Pakistan..
Deformities, lower IQ's.. all come from these things.

Thank you for that confirmation, since I did not get this fact from the title post.
 
Apparently they are, unless the 11 o clock news are BS.
This thing of marrying within the family has to end in Pakistan..
Deformities, lower IQ's.. all come from these things.

this is a concept from christianity...not much scientific proof
 
1/3 chances if you do cousin marriage the baby will come out deformed thats what the Dr's tell the mothers before hand
 

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