Miracle Baby Born With Heart Outside His Chest Survives His 6th Day

A miracle baby boy with rare heart condition has shocked the world by surviving into his 6th day defying odds of a million to one to survive, Uttar Pradesh state, India.
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The child was born with an incredibly rare heart condition - ectopia cordis.
Ectopia cordis is a congenital malformation in which the heart is abnormally located either partially or totally outside of the thorax.

The ectopic heart can be placed out of the neck, chest, or abdomen.
Still to be named baby was born with the heart on the outside of his chest shocked the parents and medics by surviving into his 6th day.

As parents of a miracle boy Priyanka, 24, and Nirbhay Pal, 31, are very poor and have no money for the treatment, they have launched a desperate appeal to help him live longer.
The boy needs private health care and a vital but expensive surgery.
According to Nirbhay Pal, the doctors insist on putting the boy into private hospital to carry out the complicated operation.

But the young parents can barely afford two square meals a day.
Now they are hoping that the government will help them.
Ectopia cordis affects as few as eight in a million babies, unfortunately, 90% of them are either stillborn or dying within three days.