THE DEATH OF SIAMESE TWINS AT THE NATIONAL HOSPITAL ABUJA

"life makes more sense to the poor, when there's access to affordable health facilities"

 A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR and THANK YOU to all the readers of my blog, it keeps me motivated to write more, though other issues take precedence when it come to this hobby of laying facts out in the open. Probably I would be an investigative journalist in another life.

2013 is just a couple of days old, and it’s been nine days of the good, the bad and the ugly. Before I start up with any insights into the fraudulent activities of the government already rearing its shameless head, Let me start on a somewhat sad note. The death of Siamese twins at the national hospital Abuja.

The word Siamese was made famous by conjoined twins Eng and Chang Bunker, who were born in Thailand (then called Siam) in 1811. The term Siamese twin was coined as a reference to Eng and Chang, who achieved international fame shortly after leaving Siam as teenagers.

Though not the first attempt to separate twins, and unbelievable not the first successful one either, but the most recent and widely acclaimed separation of Siamese twins was as far back as 1987 by Ben Carson and a group of 50 other Doctors who worked for 22 hours nonstop, broke bounds of surgical beliefs and once again convinced humanity that anything is possible.

Away from history, the case of Siamese twins Born to Ahmed and Safiya Sani at the Mahraba medical center Nassarawa state, on the outskirts of Abuja, Nigeria, sometime last week is the story of concern.  The twins were joined at the stomach, shared intestine and one navel. They were transferred to the national hospital Abuja and received attention at the intensive care unit of the hospital, although the hospital claims no operation was carried out before the demise of the twins, the reports are still cloudy as to what might have led to the untimely death of the twins. speculations though, point to a lack of funds on the part of the parents aided by the unavailability of the hospitals capacity to carry out such an operation.

This unfortunate death of the twins, at the national hospital Abuja, points once again to the lack of governments concern to the good health of its citizen’s. The provision and training of necessary equipment and manpower if invested wisely in the health sector can prevent such untimely deaths as recorded.