conjoined twins - Uganda Multimedia News & Information https://www.weinformers.com Politics, Health, Sceince, Business, Agriculture, Culture, Tourism, Women, Men, Oil, Sports Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:53:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 Egypt sponsors operation on Uganda’s conjoined twins https://www.weinformers.com/2011/11/11/egypt-sponsors-operation-on-ugandas-conjoined-twins/ https://www.weinformers.com/2011/11/11/egypt-sponsors-operation-on-ugandas-conjoined-twins/#comments Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:53:13 +0000 http://www.weinformers.net/?p=16667 The Egyptian government is to pay all costs for the operation of a set of conjoined twins at Mulago hospital. The twins who were born early this year have been at Mulago for over three months and were expected to be operated on from there. However, Mulago’s Deputy Executive Director, Dr. Doreen Birabwa says the […]

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]]> The Egyptian government is to pay all costs for the operation of a set of conjoined twins at Mulago hospital.

The twins who were born early this year have been at Mulago for over three months and were expected to be operated on from there.

However, Mulago’s Deputy Executive Director, Dr. Doreen Birabwa says the plans changed after the Egyptian government decided to provide financial support, as well as carry out the operation for free.

Dr. Birabwa says the support will cater for transportation of the parents of the babies and a doctor to accompany them

She reveals that the team will leave for Cairo on Sunday this week.

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]]> https://www.weinformers.com/2011/11/11/egypt-sponsors-operation-on-ugandas-conjoined-twins/feed/ 1 Doctors at Mulago Hospital report progress on the conjoined twins https://www.weinformers.com/2011/07/06/doctors-at-mulago-hospital-report-progress-on-the-conjoined-twins/ https://www.weinformers.com/2011/07/06/doctors-at-mulago-hospital-report-progress-on-the-conjoined-twins/#respond Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:03:53 +0000 http://www.weinformers.net/?p=13867 Doctors at Mulago hospital are reporting steady progress made by the conjoined twins who await an operation to separate them. Two weeks ago, the doctors announced that the conjoined twins needed to jointly weigh at least 10kgs before the operation can be carried out. The babies’ mother Rossette Tusiime says the twins now weigh 5.8kgs, […]

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]]> Doctors at Mulago hospital are reporting steady progress made by the conjoined twins who await an operation to separate them.

Two weeks ago, the doctors announced that the conjoined twins needed to jointly weigh at least 10kgs before the operation can be carried out.

The babies’ mother Rossette Tusiime says the twins now weigh 5.8kgs, up from 5.4 kilograms two weeks ago.

Tusiime attributes the weight increment to constant breastfeeding and the special diet recommended for her by the medical personnel.

Scans carried out earlier revealed that the twins are joined at the abdomen and share the liver.

Medical experts explain that cases of Siamese twins are a result of failure by identical twins to separate at conception stage.

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