Mother of Siamese twins appeal for help

The mother a Siamese twins, who lost one of them after they had been successfully separated by a team of surgeons at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), is appealing for public support.

This will help fund surgical procedures to correct other congenital abnormalities on the surviving twin.

Madam Mary Frempong, a seamstress in her late twenties, gave birth to the baby girls conjoined in the abdomen at KATH about two months ago, after which one of them succumbed to some of their birth defects.

Making the appeal through the Ghana News Agency in Kumasi, Madam Frempong who declined to give the name of the father of the babies to whom she is not yet married, said they had so far spent about GHc10,000.00 on surgeries and drugs.

Dr. Michael Amoah, the Paediatric Surgeon in- charge of the Paediatric Surgery Unit of the country’s second largest referral facility, corroborated this and said an additional amount of GHc20,000.00 will be required to perform other corrective procedures on the baby to enhance her high survival chances.

He said the Siamese shared one bladder; one common large intestines, had no anal opening in addition to poorly-formed genitalia among others.

“We had to perform immediate surgeries to create a stomach, divide the bladder and do other things for them to help them live, however one died from normal mortality causes common with all pre-term babies,” he said.