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Kenya: Bliss as Conjoined Twin Girls Separated in Historic Surgery Head Home
Capital FM, 15 June 2017
It began with a march down hospital corridors and the kind of hubbub that generally accompanies the arrival of a dignitary. Read more »
Blessing Kathure and Favour Karimi were born with their spines and lower backs fused. Although each had her own gut, they shared an anus and genitals. At the time of their arrival at Kenyatta National Hospital, one of the girls had a fracture on her right lower limb that was suspected to have been sustained during delivery.
On November 1, 2016, the girls were rolled into the operating theatre at Kenyatta National Hospital after being given a 50-50 per cent chance of survival.
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