The rare condition occurs when one of two conjoined twins fails to fully develop in the womb. The "twins", named Jesus and Emanuel, have two brains, two backbones and a single heart.
The 4.5 kg baby was born by caesarean at daybreak on Monday in a small hospital in the northern state of Para and was rushed by plane to a better equipped hospital in the state capital Belem. Doctor Neila Dahas, who is treating the newborn, said separating the heads would be impossible because he only has one set of organs.
"What we know statistically is that the children who undergo surgery and survive are the children who have less organs in common," she said. She added that it is still difficult to choose which head to remove because both brains are functioning well.
4 comments:
There's no way that I'd remove one of their heads since they both have functioning brains.
There's the example of the American girls with two heads and one body.
abby and brittany hensel have two heads and one body -
There's no reason to write "twins", there are clearly two children.
Don't try to separate them, twins sharing a whole, healthy body is better than one twin dying or both living with a disabled one half of a body.
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