A rarest of rare medical abnormalities happened when eight fetuses were removed from the stomach of a 21-day-old newborn girl. This operation took place at a private hospital in Ranchi on Wednesday.
The newborn girl was born on October 10 in Ramgarh. She was admitted to the hospital for abdominal pain. A CT scan of the newborn was carried out after the doctors suspected a tumor but the reports of the test revealed eight fetuses in the newborn’s stomach.
The newborn was operated on November 1 under the Chief Minister’s Ayushman Bharat Yojana. The case was identified as ‘Fetus-in-fetu’ (FIF), a rare entity in which one malformed vertebrate fetus is enclosed within the body of its twin.
Paediatrician Dr. Rajesh Kumar said, eight undeveloped embryos were removed from her abdomen. This will probably be the first case in the world when eight undeveloped embryos have been removed simultaneously.
