Chinese girl carrying fetus in her bloated belly: report
Chinese doctors detected fetus in the bloated belly of a one-year-old baby girl, which was believed to be her parasitic twin, media reports here said on Tuesday.
Medical scan reports showed that the girl from a small village in Luohe City, in central Henan Province, carried a baby inside her, Shanghai Daily reported quoting People's Hospital in the provincial capital of Zhengzhou.
The report said doctors have discovered a fetus inside the girl's stomach, which is believed to be her parasitic twin, the result of one embryo not fully separating.
Doctors are mapping out a plan on a surgical removal of the fetus, it said.
The hospital's chief anesthetist Meng Fanmin and chief surgeon Zhang Xuedong said it was a challenge the girl named Kang faced high risk.
Kang was reported to have been picked up by her adoptive parents in a rye crop in Luohe's Zhaoling District.
Her adoptive parents took her to a hospital in Luohe after her belly started to swell.
The family cannot afford medical treatment and Kang is not covered by a local medical insurance policy because the procedure for her adoption is still undergoing, the report said, adding that the provincial health authority has decided to help the girl.
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