Sudan: Baby Girl Born With Heart Outside Chest

For a baby to be born with a deformed, missing or abnormal limb, that is not news. But the news is when a baby is born with its heart outside the chest.

This incident has recently occurred in a Khartoum hospital. The baby girl Aqdar Ramadan Batran was born with its heart beating normally outside its body and functioning exactly as a normal heart would do. The baby name 'Aqdar' is the Arabic word for 'fates'!

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