Sabeen Hospital holds press conference revealing latest developments on situation of Yemeni conjoined twins
SANAA, Dec. 24 (YPA) – Al Sabeen Maternal Hospital held a press conference on Wednesday to keep local and international public opinion updated on the situation of Yemen’s Siamese twins.
The undersecretary of the Ministry of Health for the population sector, consultant pediatrician Dr. Najib Al-Qubati, confirmed during the press conference that the preliminary tests reached by the medical team are encouraging and pave the way for the next steps to save the children.
The results indicate that the two children in this situation have a great chance of life, he said, stressing that early surgical intervention is what the Siamese twins need to ensure their chance stake in life and very positive results.
Al-Qubati blamed the United Nations, its organizations and the Saudi-led coalition for delaying the transfer of the children abroad and initiating the procedures for their separation, noting that the medical equipment and medical teams needed to separate the Siamese twins are not available in Yemen, which has been under siege for six years.
He said the Ministry of Health reached out to UN organizations from the moment the twins were born to save them as a humanitarian right and until now there is no real movement on the ground.
Al-Qubati stressed that the Siamese twins are a model for the suffering of thousands of Yemeni children under the siege and the closure of Sanaa airport to millions of Yemenis.
For her part, Dr. Magda Al-Khatib, director of Al Sabeen Hospital, explained during the conference that the hospital worked for seven days and continues to work to keep the lives of the children according to our available possibilities.
Al-Khatib said: Our medical staff succeeded in reducing the substance of yolk that the two children were exposed to two days ago and put them under constant surveillance, pointing out that the hospital uses the most prominent medical staff through communication with hospitals inside and outside Yemen to give the children the necessary care.
Dr. Abdul Wahab, consultant pediatric surgeon at the hospital, explained that the main part of the two children is the liver and the heart membrane, with two separate hearts and a rib cage attached to separate chest bones.
These two children quickly need a medical center specializing in separation operations and our work is limited to keeping them alive.
E.M