MP: Woman undergoes abortion of 10 foetuses

Anju Kushwaha and her husband arrived at the hospital before midnight.

A women who conceived after undergoing infertility treatment had to undergo abortion of 10 foetuses in a government hospital in Rewa late Sunday night. Such multi-fetus pregnancies are a very rare occurrence.

The condition of the 28-year-old woman,a resident of Sunauli village in Satna district,was reported be stable but doctors at Gandhi Memorial Hospital said she would need constant attention because she is anaemic.

I have seen up to five foetuses in one womb but never so many, Dr Meena Bhargava,HoD of the gynaecology department,said. The age of the foetuses was between three and three-a-half-months.

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Anju Kushwaha and her husband arrived at the hospital before midnight. Assistant superintendent of the hospital Dr Santosh Pathak said Sanjay walked in with nine foetuses wrapped in a piece of cloth because his wife had a miscarriage on the way. Dr Bhargava said the woman was initially aborted of nine foetuses and the tenth after a gap of two hours. She said the woman was not very forthcoming on details of her pregnancy and that many papers in her file were missing.

Dr Randhir Singh,president of the Madhya Pradesh chapter of Indian Fertility Society,said the case was so rare that it could be one in a million.

Its not a miracle, he said,explaining it to be a case of hyper stimulation of ovaries that happens in the case of some women who go for assisted reproductive technology (ART) to increase chances of conception.

He said though the details of the case are sketchy,it is certain that so many pregnancies cant happen

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naturally. He said of the 25 ART clinics in the state,none is located in either Rewa or Satna.

According to him,no IVF expert would have placed so many embryos in a womans body.

One of the possibilities,according to Singh,is that the woman continued with the prescribed medicine without going for a follow-up medical check-up.