/ 11 January 1999

TWINS SEPARATED

NEWBORN South African Siamese twins joined at the abdomen were in a critical but stable condition on Monday after being separated at the weekend. The girls underwent emergency surgery at Pretoria’s Ga-Rankuwa Hospital on Saturday night, hours after they were born, to separate their shared bowels. “Their vital signs are OK; there is nothing alarming about their condition,” hospital spokesperson Babe Mosuwe said.

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