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July 25, 2009
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Ahospital in a small town in Riau province became flooded with visitors after a woman gave birth to a child with “two heads on a single, undivided body,” state-owned news agency Antara reported on Friday.
Dr. Rasul Alim M, the director of Puri Husada Hospital in Tembilahan, said the male child — despite signs that he was an otherwise normal child but with two heads — was actually a pair of conjoined twins who could not be separated.
He said the as-yet-unnamed newborn, who was in good health, was born with two arms, two legs, one pair of kidneys, one pair of lungs and one anus but two hearts and two heads.
Measuring 43 centimeters in length, he weighed in at 3,200 grams moments after birth. “This is the very first Siamese twin birth to happen in Indragiri Hilir.”
The child, whose parents were identified as Badrun, 33, and Nurhayati, 23, from Belantararaya village, was delivered by caesarean section on Thursday night.
Antara reported that the hospital was packed on Friday with local people who had heard about the birth of the “strange” baby and wanted to see it.
Alim said the only organic abnormality in the baby was that its left heart was smaller than its right one.
“The baby is actually a Siamese twin with an abnormality and in medical terms impossible to separate, but we will take care of him in the best way we can,” he said.
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