Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) has sent a heartwarming message to conjoined twins who underwent a successful separation in 2017 marking a great medical milestone in Kenya.
According to the national hospital, babies Blessing and Favour may become part of its specialists in future as they work towards their dreams.
“We wish them all the best and pray that they will get to achieve their dreams. Maybe they will become part of the KNH specialists one day,” KNH stated.
The two girls were born in September 2014 and were successfully separated after they got transferred, on September 2017, to the surgical clinic and arrived in the company of their mother Caroline Mukiri.
KNH observed that the twins were looking forward to becoming future doctors so that they can help their mother and the sick nearly six years after undergoing separation surgery.
“Six years later, the twins have grown and they look so alike. Apart from doing many things in the same way, they also share a dream of becoming doctors so that they can help their mom and the sick,” read the statement by KNH.
The complicated procedure of separating the twins involved a team of 58 multi-disciplinary professionals drawn from the University of Nairobi and KNH in an operation that lasted for 23 hrs.
Additionally, the complex surgery required over Ksh1 million which KNH catered for because their parents could not raise the medical bill.
Conjoined twins are two babies born physically connected to each other - a condition mostly caused by an embryo that is not fully separated.
Blessing & Favor were discharged from the Hospital on Thursday, June 15, 2017, after a two-and-a-half-year stay and continued receiving specialised medical care.
The separation was difficult because the spine, buttock and pelvic muscle nerves as well as gastrointestinal tracts were shared. Therefore the approach had to be multidisciplinary as is usually the case in most separations.
The separation of the twins joined the list of successful specialised surgeries KNH has carried out that have continued to transform the lives of patients through Kidney transplants, open heart surgery, plastic & reconstructive surgery and managing pre-term babies.
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