Conjoined twins: Parents in need of assistance

A woman has been delivered of a set of conjoined twins at the Banso Baptist Hospital.

“What the eye does not admire the heart cannot desire.” So says a proverb. Evelyn Bomsi, the mother of a set of conjoined twins could never have desired to witness with her nude eyes a set of two bulky looking boys yet cleaved to each other.

The two conjoined boys are second delivery at 38 weeks through a caesarean section on 27th of August 2014.

Since the extraordinary delivery, the staff of the hospital and family of the boys have being seeking and hoping for possible solutions.

According to estimates, 20 million CFA is needed for the Children to undergo the somewhat extremely delicate surgery.

The director of health services of the Cameroon Baptist Convention Professor Tih Pius says these children can be safely separated though the operation appears complicated.

The only cause for worry presently is how Mr. Banla Julius Ndi, a security guard and father of the Siamese twins, can raise the 20 million CFA for the surgery. He is crying out for assistance from government and in the meantime, experts in medical centres have formerly asked for assistance from the Saudi Arabia, Kenya or South Africa governments.

The mother of the Siamese twins who can best tell where and how the shoes are pinching testified that she has been stressed up with the whole lot.

She can at least reduce stress by putting breast milk into a feeding bottle so she can be able to feed these children differently. The conjoined twins are second born into the family after a boy.

Even though these children share common thoraco-abdominal connection and umbilical cord, they have separate heads, thoraxes above the nipple line, upper limbs, genitalia and lower limbs. As such they can eat and defecate separately.

This recent conjoined case is the second of its kind in the Health annals of the Cameroon Baptist Convention. The first case was witnessed in February 2006 where the king of Saudi Arabia funded the surgery at the Saudi Medical Centre.