Abuja Doctors Successfully Separate Conjoined Twins After 13-hour Surgery

Docs in an Abuja hospital have efficiently separated a conjoined twin after a 13hours surgical procedure.

In response to studies, the twins, Goodness and Mercy Martins, had been separated after a crew of Nigerian medical consultants spent 13 hours in surgical procedure on them in Abuja.

The infants had been delivered on the Federal Medical Middle (FMC) Keffi, on August 13, 2018, conjoined face-to-face on the chest and stomach.

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The infants had been then referred to the Nationwide Hospital, Abuja the next day the place their mother and father had been informed they would want about N20m for advanced surgical procedures that may see them separated on the coronary heart and the liver which had been fused collectively from the womb.

As luck would have it, the administration of the Nationwide Hospital Abuja determined to fund their care and all the processes.

The Surgical procedure, by a crew of medical personnel led by Surgeon, Prof. Emmanuel Ameh, was efficiently performed on November 12th, 2019.

Studies have it that 78 indigenous medical professionals, comprising surgeons, nurses, anaesthetists, paediatricians, radiologists, haematologists, chemical pathologists, and pharmacists partook within the surgical procedure.

Ameh chatting with newsmen stated the pre-surgery examination revealed that the infants shared very important organs together with, liver, chest wall, diaphragm and pericardium.