Rare One-Eyed Child Born in Dhi Qar Governorate in Iraq

Al-Marsad Newspaper: Dhi Qar Governorate witnessed the strange birth of a child with one eye in a hospital.

A Dhi Qar health source said, “For the first time in Dhi Qar, a strange birth of a child with one eye occurred in Al-Rifai Hospital, north of the center of Dhi Qar Governorate.” According to Alsumaria News.

The source added, “This condition is very rare and causes death in newborns.”

And the Iraqi media stated that the newborn child died immediately after birth, according to what a doctor at Al-Rifai General Hospital revealed.

A doctor at the hospital explained that this rare condition is the result of a mismatch between the blood of the mother and father, or the presence of a germ in the mother’s womb during pregnancy.