18-year-old girl gives birth to siamese twins in the Northwest

An 18 year old Cameroonian girl has given birth to siamese twins in the Northwest Region of Cameroon which has left her family worried.

The family of Safouratou Aryetoya announced a cry of distress during the 5 pm newscast on the national radio, CRTV.

The news presenter emphasized the extreme poverty of the two young parents, Safouratou Aryetoya and Ismaïlia Zounki, as well as the paucity of their respective families who cannot support what is ahead of them. They cannot afford for the siamese twins who must go through an operation to possibly secure their survival.

According to Crtv, the young mother went into labour for three days at the Mbissa Health Center, not far from the Bamendjin dam, until complications pushed doctors to transfer the patient to the Care Center Clinic of Bamalan in the Department of the Ngock-etundja, Northwest region. There, she was supported until she gave birth through Cesarean to two siamese girls.

The birth record issued by doctors in the Care Center Clinic, who performed the caesarean section, reported that "Hassana and Sena are doing well and are fully formed.”

Previously

On October 10, 2011 the young Tchueng Glory Akuo Épouse Samba, 23 years old, gave birth by caesarean section to siamese twins of 4.4 kg at the Presbyterian Hospital of Acha Tugi in Mbengwi in the Momo Department. The father of the girls, Samba Evaristus aged 19, and the young mother launched an appeal towards good will individuals in Cameroon and abroad. They had earlier sent a request to the Chantal Biya Fondation for assistance but they did not respond. The babies died on July 4, 2012.

As the lucky ones, siamese twins born in the Babanki Tungoh locality in Mezam had benefited from the assistance of the King of Saudi Arabia. He had them transferred to Ryad where separation had been successful.

The Kingdom had brought them back to Cameroon with an aid whose value was never specified, contrary to the amount of the surgical operation that amounted to some 12 million FCFA excluding the transfer and support.