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A woman gave birth at Amuria Health Centre IV in Amuria District but was referred to Soroti Regional Referral Hospital due to the complications, after failing to get a place at Mulago Hospital

As she turns a year, the child has started walking

Dr Epodoi then spearheaded the operation after establishing that there was a layer of living cells separating the babies and that the twins were surviving on different body organs. The operation which was initially labelled risky and impossible was eventually successfully carried out to the amazement of the entire country. On Friday last week, the ministry conducted a function to recognize the efforts by Dr Epodoi and the team of 13 other medics for the successful operation. During the functio...

April 21, 2021 A section of Soroti hospital Medics at Soroti Regional Referral hospital have said that the surviving Amuru siamese twin has recovered and is completely out of danger. Last month, the doctors successfully separated a dead conjoined twin from her living sibling. The twins were delivered by caesarean section at Amuria health centre IV in Amuria district in northern Uganda to Joyce Alinga, a 21-year-old who conceived during the long COVID-19 lockdown. But moments after the caesar...

MPs pay tribute to Soroti medics who separated living twin from dead sister April 8, 2021 Soroti hospital medics at parliament Parliament has honoured a 15-member medical team of Soroti Regional Referral hospital who successfully conducted a surgery involving the separation of a dead Siamese twin from her living sister.  The surgery took place in Soroti, six days after the baby was referred to Mulago National Referal hospital in Kampala for tertiar...