Presidency hails Saudi humanitarian support to Nigerian conjoined twins

The Presidency has welcomed the humanitarian assistance from the King Salman Humanitarian and Relief Centre for the offer of treatment to a poor Nigerian family who birthed a set of conjoined twins. A presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, on Thursday said Hassana and Hussaina, both girls, joined in the abdomen, were born to a Kano family […]

The Presidency has welcomed the humanitarian assistance from the King Salman Humanitarian and Relief Centre for the offer of treatment to a poor Nigerian family who birthed a set of conjoined twins.

A presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu, on Thursday said Hassana and Hussaina, both girls, joined in the abdomen, were born to a Kano family at a government hospital in Kaduna State. 

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He said they shared a liver and did not come with anuses for the excretion of waste.

He said they were moved to the National Hospital, Abuja, where they stayed seven to eight months without undergoing a surgery because the funding for it could not be raised.

He said the National Hospital had done such surgery in the past.

He, however, said: “The Saudi Consul, Khalil Ahmed Al-Adamawi, whose attention was drawn to the humanitarian situation, successfully got the support of the King Salman Foundation which plans to send an air ambulance any time from now for their medical evacuation to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where they’re to be separated and receive liver implants.”

The Presidency, which commended the humanitarian gesture of the King Salman Foundation and Relief Centre, prayed for the success of the surgery.