KNH separates four month old conjoined twins in 15 hour surgery
KNH announced that they carried out a successful 15 hour surgery to separate a set of four months old conjoined twins
Bridget Ogeto 
The Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) announced that it carried out a successful surgery to separate a set of four-month-old conjoined twin brothers on Sunday.
The hospital said the 15-hour procedure was carried out without any major complications.
The twins were conjoined in the chest and abdomen.
“We’ve been dealing with two kids who had abnormalities on the heart independently. They were joined in the abdomen, which means that apart from the liver joining the two, the muscles and the skin were being shared,” the doctors said.
Medics said a further analysis by the cardiology team showed that one of the babies had pulmonary hypertension whereby blood was flowing through their lungs but baby’s blood pressure was later contained.
“We hope that they continue improving. We cannot tell when they will be out of the ICU because these were like ten operations in one. There was operation of the skin, bone, heart and the liver. We are proud that this is the first time we are doing it,”said the KNH CEO.
