A middle aged woman on Tuesday delivered two conjoined babies with their heads attached to their shoulders at a Med-in specialist hospital in Ogudu on the outskirts of Lagos. The baby has two heads with oxygen tube strapped on each, a neck, chest, two legs and two hands.

According to he doctors the baby was born around 6:30pm on Tuesday through an elective caesarean section. Its mother, surgeon and nurses entered the theatre prepared to take delivery of a set of twins as indicated by the various scans she underwent in the course of the pregnancy, but were surprised when they delivered a baby with two heads.

The baby was resuscitated and was immediately transferred to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) for advance care.

A nurse said, “This is the first time I am seeing anything like this. I have watched it in movies but seeing it in real life was such an experience for me. Thankfully, the surgeon ensured that they survived.

“As I speak to you, the mother doesn’t know the condition of the babies. She still believes and expects to carry her twins. We haven’t told her yet. Only her husband was brought into the theatre to see his children and he was the one who went with the doctors to LUTH,” said the nurse.

The development is medically known as Parapagus. a rare form of partial twinning where there are two heads and two necks side by side on one torso, mostly seen India and cannot be separated since they have only one pair of arms and one pair of legs and one heart.

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Strange things happen in lagos