Agence France Presse reports that the boy, named Kiron, was born by Cesarean section on August 25. He weighed 12 pounds, 1 ounce. As news of his birth spread, some 150,000 people descended on the small clinic in Keshobpur, about 85 miles from the capital city of Dhaka. The clinic was overwhelmed by the attention and transferred the baby to a hospital in nearby Jessore city.
However, Kiron developed a fever and breathing difficulties. Doctors at the hospital wanted to transfer him to Dhaka for better care, but the parents refused and instead took him home where he soon died. "We wanted to refer him to a hospital in Dhaka but the family was so poor that they could not afford to take him there, so they took him home where he died," pediatrician Dr. KS Alam told AFP. "It was a very unusual case. The boy had one body but two complete heads."
