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| Doctors were unable to identify the baby's sex due to its underdeveloped pelvis and fused legs. Its mother Muskura Bibi, 23, had no scans and was unaware of the problem until the birth |
A mother surprised hospital specialists when she brought forth India's second since forever 'mermaid baby' yet tragically lost it only four hours after the fact.
The anonymous baby, whose sex was unclear because of its immature pelvis and fused legs, experienced an uncommon condition known as sirenomelia or 'mermaid syndrome'.
Muskura Bibi, 23, conceived an offspring normally on Wednesday morning at the administration run Chittaranjan Deva Sadan Hospital in Kolkata, eastern India.
Ms Bibi had been not able bear the cost of any outputs amid her pregnancy and consequently just learnt about the baby's condition when she initially observed it in the wake of conceiving an offspring.
Dr Sudip Saha, youngster pro at the healing facility stated: 'The guardians are a work couple and had not looked for legitimate drug amid pregnancy because of absence of cash.
'Absence of legitimate sustenance and uncalled for blood course to the baby from mother can make this sort of anomaly'.
Mermaid syndrome is thought to influence one in each 60,000 to 100,000 births.
Unfit to bear the cost of fundamental prescription
Dr Sudip Saha, child specialist at the hospital said: 'I had never seen such a baby before. It is the first case of Sirenomelia in the state and second in the country.
'The baby had normal formation in upper part of the body but below the waist its legs were fused together. The lower part was not developed completely.
'We learnt the mother had not undergone ultrasound sonography throughout gestation.
'The parents are a labour couple and had not sought proper medication during pregnancy due to lack of money.
'Lack of proper nutrition and improper blood circulation to the baby from mother can create this kind of abnormality in foetus. Unfortunately such babies do not survive.'
In 2016, a woman from Uttar Pradeash, northern Indian, gave birth to the country's first known 'mermaid baby', which only survived for 10 minutes.
No survivors to date
Medicinal history specialist Lindsey Fitzharris, who has a PhD from Oxford University, beforehand disclosed to MailOnline the condition happens when the umbilical string neglects to shape two supply routes.
Thus there is a lacking blood supply achieving the embryo.
She Fitzharris included: 'Sirenomelia is to a great degree lethal.
'There are no records of anybody with this condition making due before.
'Most passed on inside days of being conceived because of kidney and bladder disappointment.'
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