surgery: UNICEF
Conjoined baby twins born in war-ravaged Yemen were taken to Jordan Saturday for separation surgery, the UN children’s agency said, almost two months after a hospital warned they were in critical condition, reports AFP.
Born in the Yemeni capital Sanaa in mid-December, “an echocardiogram showed that each of the two children had their own heart, though the position of the heart of one of them is not normal,” Majda al-Khatib, director of Al-Sabeen hospital, told AFP at the time. The facility’s “low capacity” prevented doctors from accurately determining “which organs are connected”, she added. UNICEF said Saturday that the twins “have been medically evacuated this morning to Amman, Jordan, where they will undergo a separation surgery”.
