After 13 months of pregnancy, a woman in Ekiti finally gave birth to a baby with anencephaly in Ekiti.
Anencephaly
is a medical condition caused by a neural tube defect, which causes the
baby to have frog-like features.
Children born with this condition lack
the forebrain which is responsible for cognition i.e thinking. The
remaining brain tissue is often exposed—not covered by bone or skin.
There
is no cure or standard treatment for anencephaly and the prognosis for
patients is poor. Most anencephalic babies do not survive birth,
accounting for 55% of non-aborted cases. If the infant is not stillborn,
then he or she will usually die within a few hours or days after birth
from cardiorespiratory arrest.
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