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Bizzare: Baby Girl Born With One Eye And A Penis On Her Forehead (Photo)
DOCTORS at Dr Malizo Mpehle Memorial Hospital in Tsolo in South Africa delivered a baby with an eye and a penis on the forehead yesterday, the provincial health department said.
The baby girl, who was born to a 16-year-old girl from Qumbu, did not survive.
Eastern Cape department of health spokesman Sizwe Kupelo said the baby was born with one eye on her forehead, and no eyes where her eyes should have been.
She had a penis on the forehead even though she is a girl; and exposed small and large intestines.
“She was born with a small penis on the forehead and one eye on the forehead,” Kupelo said.
“She was born with no nose and where there are supposed to be eyes there was nothing, just skin covered over the area.”
Earlier this month, a pair of conjoined twins were born, also at the Dr Malizo Mpehle district hospital in Tsolo. Kupelo said at the time that they were the fifth set of conjoined twins born in the former Transkei in the past 18 months.
Last year in November, one child was born with an exposed heart in Port Elizabeth and another reported case was one with an exposed brain in Middleberg.
Kupelo said this pressed for the department to do a study. There were 29 birth defects last year alone.
“We urge pregnant women to start ante-natal care early for early detection,” said Kupelo, adding that this was vital especially in the first trimester.
He said pregnant women should always inform doctors that they are pregnant whenever they consult to avoid being given prescription medication that could be harmful to the child.
Kupelo also urged expectant mothers to refrain from using traditional herbs.
“We are not saying these are the causes of these defects, but they are possible contributory factors,” he said..
The Eastern Cape health department has called for more research into why so many babies have been born with deformities in the province.
“We are counting 50 deformities within a period of two years,” Kupelo said.
“We don’t have a documented cause.”
Deformities, besides conjoined twins, included babies being born with their heart or brain exposed, having two penises or four legs.
Kupelo said doctors in the area, were “in the dark” about the causes.
“This calls for a need for specialists to conduct a study in the area so as to determine what is the cause.”
The department was “in talks” about the urgent need for research by paediatric specialists into the problem.
Kupelo said most of the babies with deformities died soon after birth, or during procedures to try and rectify the deformities.
“Where necessary we attempt procedures but unfortunately the majority die,” he said.
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Philemon
June 28, 2012 at 5:08 pm
Wat?Wonders will never end.This world is coming to an end,let’s amend our ways.
kay
June 28, 2012 at 5:23 pm
yes am second to comment,sure wounders shall never end nd i think its the end of icalo
Rated
June 28, 2012 at 5:56 pm
yabah only GOD knows.
Tonga Bull
June 28, 2012 at 6:02 pm
She must be my sister.
Barotse diaspora
June 28, 2012 at 6:53 pm
Juses christ! Wats goin on 2 this world? Drs save the soul and the baby
Lulu
June 28, 2012 at 7:17 pm
Ha,thank God the baby could not survive.
MUNYELO PWETE!
June 28, 2012 at 8:18 pm
This is not strange in the medicle field! This is a Congenital abnormality and its a combination of Psedohermaphroditism and Ablepharia! Iknow chaps like Janet c and Tonga Bull are completelely clueless!
Fear Monger
June 29, 2012 at 12:23 am
é chi-dangwa-leza!!
Mel
June 29, 2012 at 12:29 am
there is too much DRUGS and INCEST in Eastern Cape! That might be the cause of such abnormal births.
Trywell
June 29, 2012 at 8:23 am
The world has no answer for this,only God knows why.
bridget
June 29, 2012 at 8:33 am
O God ths z the end of the world.
Thief Justice
June 29, 2012 at 9:21 am
@Tonga Bull LOL!!!
sabala
June 29, 2012 at 9:27 am
fisungusho ifi te mangalo. Too bad…..
dickson pussies
June 29, 2012 at 9:50 am
photoshoped…..
PornStar
June 29, 2012 at 9:50 am
Ah! Some of you are so irritating with your foolish comments. What end of the world? People have been born with defects from time immemorial. Stop being butt headed! The cause could be anything from genetic defects, radiation or chemical poisoning. You can turn on a computer but you can’t reason. Ba fee colour!
wazanga
June 29, 2012 at 10:06 am
Oh Lord?
GMT
June 29, 2012 at 10:23 am
Women eat and drink a lot of strange things these days; especially when they’re pregnant. How do you expect their offspring to be normal?
Chama Febie
June 29, 2012 at 12:21 pm
Penis on the pampumi
wakadubious
June 29, 2012 at 12:40 pm
There cud be some form of pollution in that area maybe that’s why its well known for birth defects.
ntaba weni weni
June 29, 2012 at 12:48 pm
samsung sghf 480 can play this play played here- this picture is fake-
CB
June 29, 2012 at 1:14 pm
it seems the world is coming to an end, its only God who knows the cause.
Mambwe
June 29, 2012 at 2:59 pm
I think its deformation. It was supposed to be twins – a boy and a girl.
mpwi
June 29, 2012 at 4:27 pm
I can’t see the penis on her forehead
South African
June 29, 2012 at 5:33 pm
Without the insults Pornstar is very right. For some everything they cant grasp is the end of the world
munalian
July 4, 2012 at 7:23 pm
Jesus nangula Christ………………
Losha iwe!
July 6, 2012 at 10:47 am
too mch imiti yanchila banamayo!
sex lover
July 20, 2012 at 6:12 pm
I cnt see the penis.