Indian Woman Gives Birth To A Baby With Two Heads

A 28-year-old Indian mother, Urmila Sharma gave birth to a conjoined baby girl with one body, two heads, two necks and two spinal cords via a cesarean section. Report has it that conjoined twins with this condition typically cannot be separated as they suffered from dicephalic parapagus (an extremely unusual form of conjoinment) and shared all major limbs and vital organs. (According to Daily Mail, the chances of survival are slim because they share the same body).

This delivery took place in the morning of Wednesday, March 12, 2014 at Cygnus JK Hindu Hospital in Sonipat, Haryana, Northern India.

"Yes this report is perfectly true that we have delivered a female baby having two heads,” Dr. Ashish Sehgal, the CEO of Cygnus JK Hindu Hospital told ABC News in an email. "She is presently alive and healthy" 

Dr Malik who delivered the baby added: ‘We only came to know she was carrying conjoined twins after an ultrasound two weeks ago but it was too late to do anything by then." 
"The parents are very distressed and we are helping the family the best we can."
"Now the baby is born, we will do our best to save her and we hope to operate once her condition is more stable."

Urmila and her husband Subhash, 32, who have one other daughter, were too poor to have an ultrasound during the pregnancy so complications had gone unnoticed though they were unaware that Urmila would deliver of conjoined twins.

The baby girl, yet to be named, is under close observation in the neonatal intensive care unit (ICU), though doctors fear her chances of survival are slim.