One of conjoined twins which were recently separated at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital is set to undergo, at least, three rounds of surgeries to correct life-threatening anomalies.

Doctors performed the first emergency operation to separate the twins who had no anal opening but joined in the stomach and shared several organs including bladder.

They are the second Siamese to be born at the Komfo Anokye Hospital in the last two years, and the fifth in ten years.

Medical doctors have described the condition of the conjoined twins as uncomplicated, with high hope for survival.

“Because they did not have anal opening, they could not defecate and then also they have deficient skin coverage around the umbilicus or the central part of the anterior abdominal wall. More or less it was an emergency situation because without the anus, there is no way they can defecate. They may even aspirate some of the vomitus and could cause lung problems”, says a Pediatric Surgeon at KATH, Dr Michael Amoah.

After an opening known medically as colostomy had been created to allow the passage of faeces for them, the only bladder had to be shared among the twins in an emergency surgery.

Then came the decision to give the only available large bowel to one of the twins.

 “They were sharing one common large bowel and in this situation we have to give it to the one of them-the one who is currently surviving.  We were able to divide the bladder for them” Dr Amoah revealed.

The babies, Nhyira and Aseda, will need three or more surgeries to correct what doctors say is life threatening anomalies, including the creation of anus.

But life after the surgery has not been a memorable one for Aseda who developed complications, doctors say, are associated with premature birth.

Sadly, Aseda gave up the ghost some weeks after the first surgery.

Dr.   Amoah explains her situation is not different from several other children who go through similar conditions.

Doctors say Nhyira’s three different operations will cost Gh20, 000.

Her poor parents from Nkawkaw in the Eastern Region have already spent over Gh10, 000.

With tears streaming down her cheeks, mother of the babies, Mary Frimpong, a seamstress who had been childless until now, is worried at the cost of saving the life of her only daughter.