These twins could see each other only after separation
Ervina and Prefina Bangalo were born in June 2018 in the Central African Republic. They wee born with fused nape. A neurological examination showed, that the girls were born with a rare form of pathology. Some important brain vessels were common in them.
The hospital management sent them to the Vatican Children’s Hospital to receive experts’ advice on the possibility of a surgery.
The girls underwent a few surgeries which were meant to create new blood circulation. It took 18 hours and 30 medical workers to conduct the surgery successfully. The girls later went for an MRI scan, which showed that their brains were not damaged.
Ervina and Prefina, aged 2, were joined at the skull before an operation that lasted 18 hours and involved 30 doctors and nurses. https://t.co/eNgKu78rJO
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This became the first successful operation of its kind ever conducted. And the doctors were very optimistic about their condition in the future. According to them, the girls will be able to live their life the fullest, after a course of rehabilitation.
It took three surgeries and hundreds of man-hours but Ervina and Prefina, two-year-old conjoined twins from the Central African Republic, were successfully separated in the pope’s pediatric hospital in Rome, the institution announced Tuesday.https://t.co/Y5esW9jfj1
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The mother of the twins – Ermin – didn’t have the chance to get proper education. But she hopes that her daughters will be able to get it. Maybe, they would also want to become doctors and save lives!
