After escaping Enugu hospital “hostage”, conjoined Nigerian twins arrive US for surgery

Mother and father of conjoined Miracle and Testimony aboard the flight that took them to the US. — *Mother and father of conjoined Miracle and Testimony with the babies aboard the flight that took them to the US.*

Miracle and Testimony Ayeni have landed the US to undergo a surgery that would give them a better shot at life.

The twins have been joined together since birth.

The girls were delivered at University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu, on November 16, 2015.

Despite the inability of the hospital to perform the surgery that would separate the babies, it allegedly frustrated plans to get them help elsewhere by refusing to share the babies’ medical information with other hospitals to which they were taken.

UNTH held the babies hostage, sort of.

*Doctors say Miracle and Testimony Ayeni have a 5-25 per cent chance of coming out of the surgery alive.*

It was not until Mrs Mary Abiodun Ayeni, the twins’ mother cried out on social media that UNTH did the needful.

Non-governmental organisation Linking Hands Foundation was later able to secure free medical treatment for the twins at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

Arik Air took care of the family’s return tickets.