The drama of a father: let his two Siamese daughters die or separate them and live in it only one | Chronic

Ibrahima Ndiaye He is a Senegalese father of 50 years dedicated to his daughters, marieme and Ndeye. The two girls are Siamese and although they have brains, distinct hearts and lungs, they share the same liver, bladder and digestive system.

Ndiaye has made it to the end of 2018 from Senegal to the UK, hoping that the Great Ormond Street Hospital could help it. Previously, he had already made contact with other medical centers in Belgium, the United States, Germany and Switzerland and it was only in Manchester that he was giving him medical care. Hope for his daughters.

Despite all this, the two managed to grow and got together to be three years old. As detailed in the English media, Marieme is more active and playful, while Ndeye has a quieter personality.

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The current health of girls is complicated: Marieme's heart is weak and her life expectancy has been drastically reduced and if she dies with her body still attached to Ndeye's, her sister will not survive.

Therefore, Ibrahima will have to make the heartbreaking decision to let one of her two daughters die to save the other, or keep them together and both will die.

According to Dr. Joe Bierley, As a pediatrician of twins, the fact that medicine can now do incredible things does not guarantee that if they are separated, it will work well. Knowing that Marieme could not survive the operation, Ibrahima refused to let the doctors do it.

In any case, the experts said that if the two are still together, if Marieme dies due to a complication, it would inevitably lead Ndeye to do so. The only concrete option available to the family is to save one of the smaller ones.

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Ibrahima then chose not to separate his daughters after having discussed with members of his family and members of the Catholic Church of his country.

Among his motives, there is the fact of not being able to choose between the life of one or the other of his daughters.

"I need to know that I gave them everything I could. I am a lucky man to have been part of this trip. We are still there and we do not know how it will endhe told an English newspaper.