According to information obtained by Starr FM and GHOne TV, one of the conjoined twins whose surgery was performed at the Greater Accra Regional Hospital at Ridge has passed away.
According to information from individuals close to the twins’ family, the infant passed away on the evening of December 1, 2022, when surgeons completed the final step of their procedure to separate the two boys who were linked in the head.
At the Greater Accra Regional Hospital, the lengthy procedure to separate the conjoined twins got under way on Monday, December 6, 2021.
The boy is said to have died just when the surgery started.
The twins were born on 29th March 2021.
The government took up the full cost for the surgery to separate the twins after the EIB Network began a public campaign to raise funds to support the surgery.
The campaign, which was led by the General Manager of the English Cluster of the media conglomerate, Nana Aba Anamoah, had already raised over GHC500,000.
Surgeons at the Ridge Hospital had said it will cost a whopping GHC3,000,000 to separate the twins who are joined in the head to enable them to live independently.
This was the first time doctors in Ghana conducted such a specialized operation.