DAR ES SALAAM: TWINS born conjoined and separated at Muhimbili National Hospital have been discharged from the hospital.

The twins who were born outside with the stomach and chest joined, inside the liver and breastbone joined.

Speaking today February 27, 2024 MNH Executive Director Prof.

Mohamed Janabi, said the investment in educating specialists, improving the infrastructure and purchasing modern diagnostic equipment has enabled the hospital to provide services that match its status.

For his part, MNH Pediatric Surgeon, Dr. Victor Ngota has explained that the surgery to separate the children, took six hours and involved a panel of native doctors with mixed expertise who are specialists in pediatric surgery, reconstructive surgery, sleep and anesthesia, they will of nutrition and radiology.

"We received these children on March 11, 2023, with a total weight of four kilos, so we started the process of involving the experts who are involved in these services, it took us about ten months to check their general health behavior before separating them to be able to get a vision of how they will live soon after being separated," said Ngota.

He said that until the twins were separated, they weighed 16 kilos, equal to eight kilos each.

In addition, the parent of these children, Mariam Shabani, a resident of Kigamboni in Dar es Salaam, has thanked the government and all the service providers of Muhimbili National Hospital due to the way she was served throughout the period she was there.