antananarivo, 23 mar ( EFE).- two brothers Siamese of Madagascar, who were born joined by the lower part of the chest, have died the next day of having been surgically separated in a hospital in Antananarivo.
Malagasy journal “L ' Express” reported today that Dera and Laza, who were separated by a team of local surgeons in the capital of the African isla-estado Joseph Ravoahangy Andrianavalona hospital Wednesday, died on the night of Thursday to Friday.
The surgeons responsible for the operation, which lasted two hours, showed disappointment after the death of the small, barely six months of life, and refrained from commenting on the cause of death.
. The spokesperson for the medical team pointed out that the risk of death is very high in this type of interventions.
Dera and Laza, from the region of Amoroni Mania (Center of the island) and United by the liver and the lower part of rib cage, were the first two conjoined babies who underwent this type of operation in Madagascar. EFE
