It was a first, and the whole country followed the happy event, starting with the First Lady. At the beginning of January, Hassan and Boubacar were born in the maternity ward of the Donka hospital in Conakry (Guinea). “Everything was going very well, says Fatoumata, the mother, at the Figaro, when suddenly the midwife started shouting: “Help, help me, they are Siamese! “.
Once the surprise is over, the midwife must then proceed with the delivery, trying to avoid transfusion, which is often a source of complications. The gesture is successful and the Siamese “come out” by natural means. Another perilous adventure awaits them.
Thanks to the Chain of Hopethey were repatriated to France, to the Necker hospital in Paris (AP-HP).
On May 26, in the morning, the little Guineans returned to the operating room, still bound by the liver and the small intestine. Pr Yves Legrain’s team, made up of four pediatric surgeons and three plastic surgeons, is on the job. The operation begins. At 1:49 p.m., the daily specifies, they were separated definitively. “Hassan left the block at 5:30 p.m., and his brother, Boubacar, an hour later,” the journalists note.
Carried out in the greatest secrecy, this feat is now a great success. She holds on to made in France medicine and its roots in humanitarianism and solidarity.
At four and a half months, the little brothers weigh 9 kg together, almost double their weight at birth. “In a few weeks, concludes Le Figaro, they will find their three brothers and sister at Kilometer 36, a town in the suburbs of Conakry where the whole family lives”.