Doctors give new life to teen

Bhubaneswar: Amid the coronavirus fear, doctors at Apollo Hospitals here gave a fresh lease of life to a 19-year-old-girl found with a rare syndrome causing her to have two cervices, two uteruses, two vaginas and one kidney.
Doctors said the girl was suffering from OHVIRA (Obstructed Hemi-vagina and Ipsilateral Renal Anomaly), an extremely rare syndrome causing congenital birth defect of the lower abdominal and pelvic organs.
“This is a rare syndrome and occurs in one female out of 10 lakh,” said Dr GSS Mohapatra, senior obstetrics & gynaecology consultant of Apollo Hospitals. The girl from Rourkela came to the hospital around one-and-a-half months back with complaints of severe pain in the lower abdomen. “An ultrasound report revealed she had two uteruses. Her MRI report showed that the cervix was duplicated and so was the vagina,” said Mohapatra. Due to lockdown, the surgery had to be postponed to Friday.