This photograph taken on September 18, 2013, shows three month old Asree
Gul (L) and her twin sister as they lie on a bed at a hospital in the
eastern Afghanistan city of Jalalabad. Doctors in an eastern Afghanistan
city have saved a baby girl who was born with an extra head attached to
her, doctors and relatives said on September 26.The girl named Asree
Gul (new flower), one of a twin, was admitted to a local hospital in
Jalalabad city by her parents carrying an extra head attached to her
scalp. AFP/PHOTO
JALALABAD,
Surgeons
in Afghanistan have carried out a life-saving operation on a baby girl
born with an extra head, doctors and relatives said Thursday.
The
girl -- named Asree Gul (new flower) and one of a pair of twins -- was
admitted to a hospital in the eastern city of Jalalabad with an extra
head attached to her scalp, chief surgeon Ahmad Obaid Mojadidi told AFP.
"Her
mother gave birth to twins, two girls. One girl was in good health but
the other had an abnormality. She had an extra head attached to her
head," Mojadidi told AFP.
"We separated the extra head
from her body," he said, a week after the operation which he described
as the most sophisticated ever carried out in the impoverished city.
He said, however, that the baby was not in good condition after the operation.
Nematullah,
the father of the infant who like many Afghans uses only one name, said
he had not expected his baby to survive the operation.
"The doctors saved her life. I thank them," the emotional father told AFP.
Afghanistan, plagued by more than 30 years of war and still fighting a decade-long Taliban insurgency, lacks modern healthcare.
But
facilities have improved thanks to billions of dollars pumped in by the
international community since the US-led invasion toppled the Taliban
regime in 2001.
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