Surgeons in Afghanistan have carried out a life-saving operation on a baby girl born with an extra head.Asree Gul, who is 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 said.He said: ‘Her mother gave birth to twins, two girls.
Asree Gul, two-months-old, was born with an extra head attached to her skull. Doctors in Afghanistan operated to remove the extra head and the baby has now been released from hospital
‘The doctors saved her life. I thank them,’ he said.The surgeons carried out the operation free of charge as Asree Gul's parents could not afford it.
Asree Gul (left) is one of twins and her sister was born healthy. It is thought that her extra head was the result of a third baby who did not develop properly in the womb
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