Beijing, June 08: A one-year-old little girl needs to have surgery to remove her unborn twin’s foetus from her swollen stomach.
Kang Mengru was abandoned at birth and was taken in by a childless couple in Luohe City, in the central Chinese province of Henan.
Within months, her stomach began to swell and superstitious neighbours began calling the little girl a ‘monster’ and gossiping that she was pregnant.
Medical scans revealed Kang was actually carrying the parasitic foetus of her unborn twin in her belly.
A doctor told Kang’s worried foster parents: ‘She will die unless she has the surgery immediately.’
But Kang’s foster family cannot afford surgery and are instead relying on donations to be made to a fund set up by local government.
-Agencies