Priyanka Pal, 24, was rushed to the labour room of government-run Sultanpur hospital in impoverished Uttar Pradesh state last Wednesday night, where she gave birth to a baby boy.
But, to everyone's shock, the baby was born with his heart protruding from his chest.
The incredibly rare condition, known as ectopia cordis, affects only eight in every million births and 90 per cent of these are stillborn or die within three days