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| Twins in same body die |
| 2004-09-11 |
| From correspondents in Tehran 08sep04 A PAIR of Iranian-born twins who were conjoined from the neck down has died after a 14-day fight for life, hospital officials in Iran announced tonight. Everyone kept telling the Iranian doctors not to try and separate them ... but would they listen? Nooooooooooo! The boys were born to Afghan parents on August 24, with their two heads cramped onto a single torso. "Yesterday, they started to have serious cardiac and respiratory problems, and despite the efforts of doctors they died this morning," said Nahid Hashemi, an intensive care nurse at Mashhad's Gaem hospital in north easte Iran. Medical tests revealed the presence of two hearts feeding the same arterial system, four lungs, two spinal columns and two stomachs. The pair was also given names - Ali and Ashgar - while their impoverished refugee father appealed for international help and advice, admitting he had no idea what to do with them. The father, Jafar Mahmoudi, also said his wife was so disturbed that she had tried to commit suicide on two occasions since the delivery. |
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