Siamese twins die in Jakarta<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Siamese twins, born Wednesday, died Saturday
\nnight at the Jakarta Islamic General Hospital in Central Jakarta.<\/p>\n
Hospital director, A. Sanusi Tambunan, told The Jakarta Post
\nthat the girls shared a heart which doctors had thought would
\nfail.<\/p>\n
The only children of Eka Filianti, the mother, 25, and Mujito,
\n26, were buried yesterday.<\/p>\n
Mujito said, \"We are sad because they were our first babies.\"<\/p>\n
Sanusi said scanning results showed that apart from two
\nperfect heads, the babies had separate lungs, spinal columns,
\nesophagus, stomach and pancreas. But they shared other organs
\nsuch as a heart, liver, anus and genitals and hands and legs.<\/p>\n
\"An inadequate supply of oxygen had caused the baby on the
\nleft side to be weak since birth,\" Sanusi said.<\/p>\n
Karnoto, a pediatrician, who witnessed the birth, said the
\nnew-borns' faces were covered with fetal membrane liquid which
\nthey had swallowed too much of.<\/p>\n
\"We were all shocked,\" he said.<\/p>\n
They were born by a caesarean operation. They weighed 3.1
\nkilograms and were 48 centimeters long.<\/p>\n
Medical staff had decided to take the babies to the Cipto
\nMangunkusumo General Hospital, but it was full at the time. The
\nHarapan Kita Hospital then refused to admit them for \"technical
\nreasons\".<\/p>\n
For four days the Islamic general hospital's medical team fed
\nthe babies intravenously through their stomach because their
\nmother could not breast-feed them.<\/p>\n
Sanusi said their body went blue and they began having trouble
\nbreathing at 9 p.m. Saturday. The heart slowed and finally
\nstopped at around 10:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
He said the parents had requested \"that their babies be buried
\nimmediately and not be used for medical studies.\"<\/p>\n
Further analysis could only be done by X-ray, he said.<\/p>\n
Sanusi said the Cipto Mangunkusomo medical team had planned to
\nplace the twins in their isolated intensive care unit and make
\nfurther examinations when they weighed five kilograms. (10)<\/p>",
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