Baby born with two faces is worshipped as a god

An Indian girl born with two faces is eating and breathing normally, despite also having two pairs of eyes, lips and two noses, say her parents.

Considered by many to be a deity in this deeply conservative Hindi country, the yet to be named baby born to factory worker Vinod Kumar and his wife Sushma has been drawing crowds of curious observers.
''I had never seen something like this in my life so naturally I was a little scared when I first saw her,'' her father said at the weekend at the family's mud-and-brick house in Noida town, about 50 kilometres northeast of New Delhi.
The girl has found easy acceptance in Kumar's large, extended family, who say they have no plans to consult doctors to check if the girl can receive treatment or corrective surgery.
''The doctor said everything is normal when she was born. So where's the need to get medical help?'' said the child's father.
''Whatever God has given me is acceptable. What can we do about it?''
''She's fed through one mouth and sucks her thumb with the other. We use whichever mouth is free to feed her,'' the 24-year-old Kumar told AFP, adding she is eating and breathing normally.
Doctors said it was an extremely rare case, with the girl having two skulls joined together, and that separating them was out of the question.
''Since the heads are fused, separating them is not possible,'' paediatrician DK Gupta of the All
India Institute of Medical Sciences told the Hindustan Times newspaper on the weekend.
But doctors said the girl should be examined thoroughly to study the possibility of complications.
''Clearly the child is in no immediate danger but it has to be checked whether the oral and nasal cavity and other passages'' are functioning properly, paediatrician Gupta said.
''This child is very special to us,'' the baby's grandfather chimed in, gazing lovingly at the infant.
Source: The London Paper