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S'PORE OP FOR TWINS WITH THREE LEGS
SINGAPORE : Singapore surgeons will perform separation surgery tomorrow
on a pair of 15-month-old conjoined Indonesian girls fused at the stomach
and hips,their father said.
"If all goes well,the operation will take around 20 hours,said Sobari,father
to Angeli and Angie.
"Doctors are hopeful,we are hopeful."
The twins arrived in Singapore in February and have undergone a battery
of tests to determine whther the operation could go forward.They share
three legs.
Sobari,who like many Indonesians goes by a single name,said the girls
were healthy,and they were praying every day for a safe operation.
"No one has made any promises but without the help of a sponsor,we
could not have even thought about having the operation,"said Sabari,from
Medan.
He declined to reveal the cost of the operation at the Gleneagles Hospital.
Hospital officials declined comment.
Conjoined twins occur about once in every 150,000 to 200,000 live births.
Up to 60 per cent of conjoined twins are survive 24 hours or less.
Those who survive longer are often plagued by medical complications due
to shared organs and vital systems.
Singapore doctors have had varied results in the separation of conjoined
twins in recent years.
In 2001,Nepalese twins Ganga and Jamuna Sharestha,whose conjoined heads
were separated in an unprecedented 97-hour operation,now lie sick and
virtually immobile in a cramped apartment in Nepal's capital.They turned
5 on May 9.
Two years ago,doctors successfully separated a pair of Korean twins fused
at the spine but weeks later,Iranian adult twins Ladan and Laleh Bijani--joined
at the head-- died from massive blood loss during an operation to separate
them. --AP
Malay Mail 20/5/2005 |
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