CONJOINED TWINS BORN IN NIGERIA FOR THE FIRST TIME IN LASUTH REPORTEDLY DIES.

The set of conjoined twins delivered by medical professionals have been pronounced dead, according to the management of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH).

Recall that on October 5, at an estimated gestational age of 33 weeks and six days, the twins were delivered at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, according to a hospital announcement.

It stated that the conjoined female newborns, who had good APGAR scores and a total birth weight of 3.8kg, had been delivered at 8:26 a.m.

According to the hospital, a multidisciplinary team delivered the conjoined twins, who were fused at the lower chest and abdomen (thoracic omphalopagus).

However, the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Professor Adetokunbo Fabamwo, stated that the pair of twins had congenital heart conditions that weren’t compatible with life in an interview with Vanguard on Monday in Lagos State.

The twins’ mother was healthy, according to Fabamwo, who reported that the first twin passed away on Sunday, October 15, and the second twin passed away on Monday, October 16.

“The nature of their joining was so complex,” he remarked. It is really complicated because they are connected top to bottom. Furthermore, they had to be a specific age before being split up.

The first twins had life-threatening congenital heart conditions. When you have irregularities like that, your body typically has additional abnormalities as well. On October 15, she was the first to pass away.

When it happened, a team of multispecialty doctors from LASUTH and other institutions was swiftly put together to separate them. But today (October 16), the second twins passed away before we could do anything.