Lima, Nov 1 (EFE) Siamese twins Ruth and Milagros, who shared such vital organs as the heart, liver and intestines, died in a hospital in the Peruvian capital, an official said.
Luis Shimabukuro, director of the National Children’s Institute, said Saturday that the Siamese twins died Friday night due to a complex congenital cardiopathy (a badly formed heart that both shared and which was incapable of pumping blood), according to Radio Programas del Peru (RPP).
The babies’ mother, Lorenza Huaman, told RPP that her daughters passed away Friday night from complications of their condition.
The doctors caring for Ruth and Milagros, who were born last month and were joined at the chest, said that they could not be separated because they shared vital organs.
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