One-eyed baby born in India

She’s just four days old but more talked about than any other baby in Chennai's Kasturba Gandhi Hospital. It’s because she's born with just one eye.

It’s a birth defect called Cyclopia where the eye is in just one cavity and there is no functioning of the nose or nostrils.

The baby girl is now breathing through her mouth with the help of tubes.

Only one in a million babies are born with Cyclopia because it's usually detected through scans in the 10th week of pregnancy. In almost all the cases, the pregnancy is terminated.

"This condition occurs when the forebrain doesn't fully subdivide which affects the development of the eye," says a paediatric opthalmologist at Apollo Hospital, Dr Uma Ramesh.

Other experts said the condition could result if the woman was a diabetic before conception and the sugar levels were not maintained properly.

You can see a bigger photo of the unfortunte child here.