The doctors at McGann Hospital in Shivamogga successfully conducted surgery on a woman diagnosed with a ruptured ectopic pregnancy after arranging the blood of the rare Bombay blood group for the woman.
Baby, 31, of Hale Jog of Nyamathi taluk in Davangere district, was brought to the hospital on November 12 with severe stomach pain. The doctors found that she was one-and-a-half months pregnant. Further examinations showed that it was a case of ruptured ectopic pregnancy, in which the foetus develops outside the uterus on the fallopian tube. Her condition was critical; and her haemoglobin level was only 2.5 grams per deciliter, and her blood pressure was 80/50.
The doctors admitted her to the intensive care unit. It was noticed that her blood group was the rarest —the Bombay Blood Group.
