Raipur, Nov. 13: Jagdish Yadav could not wait to lay his hands on his second child, delivered yesterday morning.

But when the moment arrived, the 30-year-old man was left shocked. The child, a girl, had its heart outside her body. Yadav looked for medical help for the girl but could not arrange it due to monetary constraints. He then brought the girl home, where she died this evening.

Yadav, who works in a printing press in Korba, around 200 km from here, stays in the Sitamadi area of the town with his wife Sushila and a four-year-old son.

After her birth, the child was found holding her heart, which was located between the neck and collarbone, in her right hand. She was rushed to the nursing home of Vishal Upadhyay, a local doctor, in Kosabadi.

After the primary examination, the doctor attending to the child expressed his inability to proceed with the treatment. ?The baby?s heart had came out as one valve could not be developed. The heart, now external, was connected to the inner body through arteries and veins,? Upadhyay told The Telegraph.

A surgery was the only option left, he said, adding that the child would have got the necessary treatment in Chennai as it was not available in Chhattisgarh.

This came as another jolt to Yadav, whose salary of Rs 2,500 was inadequate to finance the treatment, estimated at almost Rs 2 lakh.

Finding no way out, Yadav brought the child home last evening, where she died around 6.30 pm today.

Allauddin Faristha, a leading cardiologist here, said the baby girl was suffering from Ectopia Cordis, an ?extremely rare? condition. The chances of survival in such cases were bleak, he added.