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Medical Council investigates Mulago over conjoined twins
Thursday April 15 2021
Surgeons conduct an operation on a patient. The Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council is investigating Mulago Hospital for declining to operate conjoined twins who had been referred to the facility for separation. Photo | Rachel Mabala
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The director general of health services, Dr Henry Mwebesa, told Daily Monitor yesterday that they are still waiting for the Council’s findings to inform next course of action.
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The Ministry of Health has asked Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners Council (UMDPC) to investigate circumstances under which Mulago hospital declined to operate on conjoined twins who were referred to the facility for separation last month.
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 tertiary care only to be referred back without help. By that time, the dead baby was decomposing and the team headed by Dr Joseph Epodoi, a senior consultant surgeon conducted a surgery that lasted 15 hours and saved the baby who shared parts with a dead sister.
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