First Set Of Conjoined Nigerian Twins Delivered In LASUTH Dies

The management of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) has announced that the set of conjoined twins delivered by medical experts are dead.

Recall that the hospital had announced the delivery of the twins on October 5, at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at an estimated gestational age of 33 weeks and six days.

It said the conjoined female babies were delivered at 8:26 a.m. with good APGAR scores and a combined birth weight of 3.8kg.

The hospital said the conjoined twins, fused at the lower chest and abdomen (thoracic omphalopagus), were delivered by a multidisciplinary team.

But in an interview with Vanguard on Monday in Lagos state, the Chief Medical Director of the hospital, Professor Adetokunbo Fabamwo, said the set of twins had congenital heart issues that weren’t compatible with life.

Fabamwo stated that the first twin died on Sunday, October 15, and the second one died on Monday, October 16, stating that their mother was doing well.

He said: “The nature of their joining was so complex. They are joined from up to down, which is so complex. Moreover, they must have reached a certain age before they were separated.

“The first twins had congenital heart issues that weren’t compatible with life. When you have abnormalities like that, there are usually other abnormalities in the body. She was the first who died on October 15.

“When it happened, we quickly moved to separate them by assembling a team of multispecialty experts from LASUTH and other hospitals. However, before we could intervene, the second twins died today (October 16).”