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.
Kang Mengru desperately needs surgery to remove the parasitic twin growing inside her stomach
Doctors have warned she may lose her life if she is not operated on as soon as possible
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.
Kang’s foster family are relying on donations to pay for the life-saving surgery.
