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Hospital Niños Evaluates
Separating Siamese Twins in
Costa Rica
The surgeons at the Hospital
Nacional de Niños (children's
hospital) in San José are not
discarding the possibility of
separating the Siamese twins
Yurella and Fiorella Rocha
Arias, now one year and five
months old.
The head of surgery at the
hospital, Gerardo Mora Badilla,
confirmed the possibility of the
operation being performed in
Costa Rias the North American
foundation that had offered with
the operation in the United
States has not shown more
interest in the case.
Mora said he sent a message to
Fundación Mending Kids
International, expressing his
concern on the delay on their
answer for the eventual
separation.
Last year, Mending Kids, priced
out the cost of the trip, the
medical exams, the operation and
the cost of the stay for the
Siamese and their parents where
the surgery would have been
performed at the Cedars-Sinai in
Los Angeles.
Mending Kids, according to
Badilla, offered to confirm the
possibility of the separation
and had offered to find a
hospital and cover all the
costs.
Mora told the daily Spanish
language newspaper, La Nación,
that he had no more contact with
the foundation and that his
contact, Wener Cajas Dubón, has
not returned any of his calls.
The Siamese are attached at the
thorax and share the liver and
an auricle of the heart,
complicating the surgery.
Mora said that the surgery of
separating the Siamese is high
risk and one of the babies will
probably not survive.
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