An Indian
mother has given birth to conjoined twins who have two sets of hands but share
one pair of legs.
The twins -
a boy and girl - also share nearly every vital organ.
Their
mother, Shivrajo Devi, 24, gave birth at a private clinic in a village in
Buxar, Bihar, eastern India, on Wednesday evening.
However
their condition soon began to deteriorate and they were moved to Sadar Hospital
in the city where medics gave them preliminary treatment in neo-natal intensive
care unit.
Dr Raj
Kumar Gupta, a paediatrician at Sadar Hospital, said: ‘They are fused from the
waist and only one genital is visible which is of a girl.
'Even
though the second genital is missing, we suspect the face of the second baby is
a boy, which makes this case even more rare as conjoined twins are usually of
the same gender.’
