A Child born With Heart Outside His Chest, Still Lives After 6 Days

UTTAR PRADESH STATE, INDIA: A miracle child with unusual birth condition has shocked the world by surviving into his 6th day. The child was born with an incredibly rare heart condition - ectopia cordis.

Ectopia cordis is a congenital malformation in which the heart is abnormally located either partially or totally outside of the thorax.

The ectopic heart can be placed out of the neck, chest, or abdomen. Ectopia cordis affects as few as eight in a million babies, unfortunately, 90% of them are either stillborn or dying within three days.

The boy needs private health care and a vital but expensive surgery. The doctors insist on putting the boy into private hospital to carry out the complicated operation. The parents of the boy child Priyanka, 24, and Nirbhay Pal, 31, are very poor and have no money for the treatment, they also have been seeking for assistance from people and government.

The child still marvels the parents and medics by surviving into his 6th day.