<i>Baby inside baby </i>
Doctors at Mirpur Shishu Foundation Hospital yesterday operated on a two-month-old boy and removed a foetus, weighing around 200 grams, from inside his abdomen.
The growing foetus inside the baby boy named Bijoy has developed a little head, some hairs on it, a hand, two legs, and some intestines, the physicians said.
The foetus was preserved in a bottle with embalming chemicals. From the outside, it looks like just a lump of flesh.
Associate Professor Dr Md Arifur Rahman, who led a five-member team in the two-hour operation, said one such case might exist among every five lakh normally born children.
He said the operation was successful and Bijoy was now out of danger.
Bijoy weighed 4.5 kilograms yesterday.
Shahid Rana, father of the boy, living in Saturia of Manikganj, said Bijoy was born on December 21 last year and used to vomit whenever he ate anything. Most of the time he was sick, he said, adding that he felt something round inside the boy's abdomen.
Rana admitted Bijoy to the city hospital on February 20.
The physicians said that during the pregnancy of the boy's mother, the growth of the twin embryos had an imbalance. At a certain time of growth, one of the embryos entered the other due to lack of space in the mother's womb, they added.
The doctors said they detected the foetus inside the boy's abdomen after medical tests.
In 2005, a 16-year-old boy was found carrying his twin inside him. The foetus, weighing around 1.5kg, was successfully removed through an operation in a city hospital.
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