Daijiworld Media Network – Udupi (SP)

Udupi, Feb 17: The doctors at Adarsh Hospital here have given rebirth to a child, the chances of the survival of which was thought to be negligible, as it was born with two heads.

Dr Raja and his team conducted a 12-hour-long surgery on the child and separated the second head. The child has been responding to treatments well since the last two weeks.

It is learnt that such births happen on an average, once in 10,000 deliveries. “In medical parlance, the condition is known as occipital encephalocele. Very rarely such children survive, explained neuro-surgeon of the hospital, Dr Raja.

It is learnt that the parents of the child, worried after witnessing a lump of flesh joined to the head of the newborn in a Shimoga hospital, were guided to meet Dr Raja. Along with Dr Raja, the other neurologist, Dr Jaspreet Singh, anaesthetist, Dr Sanjay Udupa, and paediatrician, Dr Ashok Kumar, were involved with the surgery, informed medical director of the hospital, Dr G S Chandrashekhar.