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Inside The World Of UNTH Conjoined Twins by Marvellouzkk(f): 7:01pm On Feb 11, 2016 |
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A set of conjoined twins, Testimony and Miracle,
both females were born on Monday, November
16, last year at St. Patrick’s Hospital, Enugu,
Enugu State but were immediately referred to the
University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH) in
the same city for better medical attention.
This reporter visited them at UNTH where they
are presently on admission and met the parents
of the twins, Mr. Samuel Olusegun Ayeni and his
wife, Mary.
Ayeni recalled that doctors told him when his
wife was seven months pregnant that the babies
were joined somewhere which ultra-sound tests
did not specify.
To confirm what they were told, Ayeni said they
conducted five more ultra-sound checks and the
results were all the same. While they couldn’t
figure out what led to the twins being conjoined,
the couple resigned to fate. Their first child is
two years old and the twins were their second
birth.
Mother of the babies, Mrs. Mary Ayeni said if
she was given the option of choosing children
before delivery, she would not like to choose
conjoined twins but quickly added “God has a
reason for giving me these wonderful children.”
The major concern of the parents now is the
separation of the babies. They said they do not
have the money to pay for their separation.
“I have seen a lot of twins joined at different
positions. I said God, since you have a reason for
this, all I want now is a successful surgery for
my children because I’m not ready to lose any
one of them, they are dear to me,” Samuel Ayeni
said.
He said he could go to any length to beg
Nigerians for financial assistance so long as he
will have his babies separated successfully,
healthy and alive at the end of the day. The
couple who hail from Yagba West Local
Government of Kogi State have appealed to
Nigerians, particularly the Kogi State Governor,
Yahaya Bello and the senator representing Kogi
West Senatorial Zone, Dino Malaye to quickly
come to their aid and save the lives of their
babies.
Their passionate appeal came up as UNTH set
up a sub-committee for fundraising to enable the
babies undergo the surgery at the hospital,UNTH
Chief Medical Director, Dr. Chris Amah told Daily
Trust during an interview at the hospital.
Dr. Amah said the moment the hospital
management got the information that the
conjoined twins were admitted in the hospital,
they called a meeting of the managing team and
other special teams that will be involved in the
management of the babies.
He said the hospital has handled about eight
similar cases in the past, and is well-equipped to
still handle the present case which will cost not
less than N5million, adding that the hospital has
a bank account known as UNTH New Born
Incubation Services Recovery Account -
2744848671 at First City Monument Bank for
public spirited individuals to pay in willful
donations to enable the babies undergo surgery
for their separation at the hospital.
He added that after they were briefed on the
situation, the management established a
committee chaired by Prof. Nene Obianyo, a
clinical surgeon who is heading the clinical
management of the patients.
He added that other members of the committee
include specialists from different areas - plastic
surgery, radiation medicine and other relevant
units, saying the main goal for assembling them
was to get the best result which is to have two
healthy babies separated and having independent
existence different from how they have been
born together.
He described the process as “a very long journey
that will take place in stages,” and emphasized
that the major concern of UNTH now is to make
sure that they are kept alive and healthy,
properly fed, get the parents counseled, and
then begin to apply the steps in management.
“First of all, the investigation, that is trying to
establish the details of this natural union: What
organs, structures are they sharing; we have to
establish the anatomy, the structure. We have to
establish some other things; what can you
separate and what can’t be separated. So these
details will be established through
comprehensive investigation,” he explained.
However, the parents of the babies while
expressing their deep appreciation to the
management of the hospital for all their care and
efforts said they preferred the babies’ surgery to
be done in a hospital abroad, since the children
are very dear to them, and they would not like to
lose any of them in the process of separation
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Re: Inside The World Of UNTH Conjoined Twins by chriskosherbal(m): 2:30am On Feb 12, 2016 |
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