{"id":25013,"date":"2016-05-01T03:31:57","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T03:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/conjoined-twins-born-in-mombasa-hospital-die\/"},"modified":"2016-05-01T03:31:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-01T03:31:53","slug":"conjoined-twins-born-in-mombasa-hospital-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/conjoined-twins-born-in-mombasa-hospital-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Conjoined twins born in Mombasa hospital die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The babies born Thursday and who were due to be flown to KNH for specialised treatment.}<\/p>\n<p>Two conjoined twins born at the Coast Provincial General Hospital in Mombasa died early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The babies born Thursday and who were due to be flown to Kenyatta National Hospital for specialised treatment died while at the ICU despite doctors\u2019 efforts to resuscitate them.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming their deaths, CPGH chief administrator Dr Iqbal Khandwalla told the Nation.co.ke that they tried all they could to save but the efforts were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The twins passed on last night at about 12.30am, one was doing poorly and since they were connected, the other one also followed. We had a full team there including the anaesthetist; we tried our best but they still died.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch babies are delicate, they have congenital complications, major blood vessels were shared, and the liver was shared. They were joined from the chest downwards,\u201d said Dr Khandwalla.<\/p>\n<p>The twin boys born on Thursday morning were joined at the abdomen and were to be flown to Nairobi by the Amref flying doctors for urgent surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Khandwalla said the babies were being fed through intravenous tubes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t breastfeed such babies, they were being fed through intravenous tubes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that their mother\u2019s condition was good and stable as she went through a caesarean section, which he termed \u2018normal\u2019.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-12041 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/twins-pic.jpg\" alt=\"A nurse at Coast Provincial General Hospital attends to the conjoined twins born on Thursday morning. The twins died early Sunday before they could be flown to Nairobi for specialised treatment.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The babies born Thursday and who were due to be flown to KNH for specialised treatment.} Two conjoined twins born at the Coast Provincial General Hospital in Mombasa died early Sunday morning. The babies born Thursday and who were due to be flown to Kenyatta National Hospital for specialised treatment died while at the ICU [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[99],"byline":[2461],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-25013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-daily-nation"],"bylines":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2461,"name":"Daily Nation","slug":"daily-nation","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25013"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=25013"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=25013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}