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Sunday, August 29 2004 Search : Vol 17 No.30

News Opinion Features Sports Chic Columnists Faith Personage Magazine Interview Business Week Sunday Politics Ecowas Report Family Line Foreign News Ebonyi Siamese twins for seperation in 3 months NKIRU OKEREKE, Enugu SIAMESE twins (aka "Okposi Babies") delivered last Tuesday by a 35-year-old widow in Okposi local government area of Ebonyi State, will not be separated until they are up to three months old. Head paediatric surgeon at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu, where the babies are currently being cared for, Dr. Christopher Amah, who stated this, said the twins had to gain more weight each, and stabilise before any separation could be undertaken. They weighed 2.9 kg at birth. Dr. Amah spoke with Saturday Champion at UNTH Ward 8 where the twins and their mother, Mrs. Happiness Uloma Ajah, are admitted. According to him, the hospital is not contemplating the separation of the conjoined twins now, "because their condition has to stabilises, to enable them undergo the rigorous tests associated with the separation." "The twins were delivered normal, which should not be so. Once there is a condition of this situation, the delivery should be through caesarian section. So, it was a very difficult and traumatic delivery. "One of the twins sustained vascular injury, due to breach presentation. This is what we have been trying to handle. But we are happy that their condition is better now. "They need to gain more weight in order to adapt to the environment." "They were 2.9 kilos at birth: We are not talking about separation now because there is no emergency. "They (babies) are only three days old; we need to do a lot of tests, which we have not started doing until they are stabilise. Nobody will talk about separation until they are up to three months old. Mrs. Ajah told Saturday Champion that she never suspected that she was about to be delivered of twins as she did not go for any ultra-sound scan. The widow, from Umuakuma, pleaded with government and kind-hearted individuals to rescue her twins as her husband had died since 1994.

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