Genetically Compromised* Baby Born to Sibling Dies Hours After Birth OLASMEDIA TV NEWSThis is what we have for you today:
A little boy, born to two siblings who committed *, died within hours of his birth due to a serious genetic abnormality.
The boy was born in Dustlik, Uzbekistan, but is said to have had numerous birth defects because his parents were brother and sister.
Footage captured the baby crying in an incubator while a nurse wiped the dry, flaky skin from his buttocks.
His mother, born in 1994, was 35 weeks and four days pregnant when she gave birth to the boy, the Uzbek health ministry said on June 28.
The boy was her second child, the first was born to a previous husband and the pregnancy was normal, the ministry added.
Unfortunately, despite doctors’ efforts to resuscitate him, the newborn died just two hours and 10 minutes after being born.
The Uzbek Ministry of Health said: “It is known that in medicine it has been proven that in most cases children are born with various genetic defects as a result of the marriage of close relatives.
“Particularly through such families, the unborn child can develop dangerous diseases such as congenital mental retardation, chromosomal disorders, Down syndrome, severe mental and physical retardation.
“That’s why we ask young people who are preparing to get married, first undergo a medical examination and then start a new life, to avoid marriages between close relatives.”