Doctors separate Siamese twins

A front-page capture of the Graphic said Doctors at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi last Tuesday successfully separated a set of Siamese twins in a three-hour operation. They were joined at the chest, abdomen and the umbilical cord.

The two female babies, whose names were given as Fuseina and Asana, are responding to treatment at the intensive care unit of the hospital.

The medical feat is the second to be accomplished by the hospital. The first operation to separate Siamese twins was carried out in 1994.

Professor David Nii-Amon Kotei, Consultant Surgeon, who led the medical team in the operation, told the Graphic in Kumasi that their mother, Mukaila Abu 35, was delivered of the twins through caesarean section at the Nalerigu Baptist Mission Hospital near Gambaga in the Northern Region, in January.

He said the mission hospital got in touch with him, and after consultations with his colleagues and the authorities, KATH decided to offer a helping hand.