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Article: ZAMBIA: ZAMBIAN SIAMESE TWINS RETURN HOME
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- April 9, 1998
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Chibi Kubantu
Inter Press Service English News Wire
04-09-1998
LUSAKA, Apr. 8 (AIA/GIN) -- Lusaka celebrated the recovery of
Zambian Siamese twins, Luke and Joseph Banda, born with their heads
joined, who were successfully separated by surgery in South Africa.
The boys, who already had their first birthday, were born on
Jan. 23, 1997 through Caesarean section. The Zambian University
Teaching Hospital (UTH) has worked on Siamese twins before, but
Luke and Joseph put them to test to see how far they could take
their medical theories and practice.
The boys were not immediately operated to separate them, but
were left to grow since they were breathing and feeding properly.
Later they were taken to ...