A woman gave birth to conjoined girl twins at the Sambalpur District Headquarters Hospital here on Saturday night. The bodies of the twins are reportedly conjoined from belly to neck.
Ravina Kumari, a resident of Rengali in the district, gave birth to the conjoined twins, following which doctors at the hospital advised her husband to take the newborns to the VIMSAR in Burla or the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack for proper treatment.
However, the woman’s family members have expressed their inability to do so due to their poor financial condition.
Ravina’s father-in-law Bijay Chaudhary said the family is struggling to make ends meet and they are incapable of bearing the cost of the treatment. He hoped that the State Government would extend financial assistance towards treatment of the twins.
Notably, similar conjoined twins, namely Jaga-Kalia, of Kandhamal district were separated after surgery at AIIMS-Delhi in October, 2017. However, Kalia died at the SCB Hospital in November 2020 while undergoing treatment as he was suffering from complications.