Conjoined twin boys born in January to a 29-year-old mother at Mankweng Tertiary Hospital are set to undergo separation surgery on Tuesday, in what will be an historic first for the Limpopo department of health.
Dr Precious Moraswi, a training specialist who will be part of the medical team involved in the separation, told Sowetan this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience for her as a doctor in the paediatric surgery department for the past six years.
Before these twin boys, there was only one case. Unfortunately, those twins did not survive for more than 48 hours. Their deformity was not conducive to life. Conjoined twins are a very rare situation in the world its like one in 50,000 live births.
