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posted by martyb on Monday April 01 2019, @04:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the hope-she-has-help-with-child-care dept.

A Bangladeshi woman gave birth normally and left the hospital, only to return and give birth to fraternal twins less than a month later.

the mom wasn't aware of her unique situation until she was forced to seek medical attention for lower abdominal pain and got an ultrasound.

This was possible because the woman was born with a second uterus.

Women born with two uteruses aren't unheard of. The formal name for the condition is called uterus didelphys. Estimates of how common it is are grainy, largely because many women experience no symptoms as a result of the condition. But it's probably very rare. One 2011 review, for instance, estimated that 0.3 percent of women in the general population had two uteruses.

The birth of the twins occurred 26 days after the delivery of her first baby.

Quirky as the woman's story is, it has troubling implications. The lack of an ultrasound that's standard practice in countries like the U.S. is indicative of the poor healthcare system in Bangladesh

Fortunately all three births were without issue.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @12:21PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 01 2019, @12:21PM (#823036)

    It's called PHI: protected health information. You don't just get to throw a few SQL queries at a medical records system whenever you feel like it... assuming the thing is even accurate and has some kind of central repository you can trawl.

    You honestly think there's a dashboard somewhere with realtime stats from ultrasound reads? PHI is protected, and that precludes your dorky urge to hoover up all the data.

    And yeah, lo and behold, in countries subjected to capitalist imperialism with tin pot dictators propped up by Western military might exploiting the people there and wringing them dry for all they've got... well... you should know how capitalism works by now. "There is no money!"

  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday April 01 2019, @03:20PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 01 2019, @03:20PM (#823100) Journal

    > It's called PHI: protected health information.

    Isn't it possible for researchers to collect aggregate statistics? I would think so. Even if they have to jump through some hoops and pass some reviews first.

    How else do we know lots of statistical health information? Number of people under 20 with diagnosed type 1 diabetes is 0.24 % of that population. Example of the source of [diabetes.org] that statistic.

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