The medical board of JJ Hospital, Mumbai has informed Bombay High Court in its report that it will be too risky to abort the 30-week pregnancy of a mother carrying conjoined twins who share a heart and a liver.

The hospital authorities have mentioned that it would be safer for the 22-year old woman seeking the medical termination of pregnancy to carry the pregnancy to term instead. The woman had moved the high court requesting for MTP, as the act passed in 1971 does not permit termination beyond 20 weeks.

The Bombay High Court judges had ordered examination of the woman and a thorough report from the JJ Hospital Dean and Superintendent. The woman had filed a plea after knowing about her condition during her 28-week scan at JJ Hospital. However, the medical board in its report has mentioned that the woman could be at great risk if medical termination be carried out now via C-section. One of the twins already has fluid build-up in the brain and a pre-term C-section could not be performed because the lower uterine segment was not formed.

Information for this news was sourced from The Times of India. Read the original here.