Ghanaian media personality, Nana Aba Anomoah, has received a touching message from the first-ever separated conjoined twins in Ghana over her recent kind gesture.
This follows the veteran media personality initiating a fundraising campaign to support a surgery that will separate newborn conjoined twins at Ridge Hospital. The campaign that targeted to raise 3,000,000 Ghana cedis fetched over 500,000 Ghana cedis. Later, H.E Nana Addo pledged to take responsibility for the total cost of the surgery.
The story reached Lydia and Linda Awui, the first conjoined twins to be separated in Ghana in 1999 through the intervention of the late former President, Jerry John Rawlings.
Nana Aba shared the message from the twins on her social media with hashtags that say “inspiring, hope conjoined twins”.
Reaching Nana Aba through social media, Lydia sent her a touching message, to express gratitude for her effort to help the conjoined twins.
“Good evening Aunty Nana Aba, I am Lydia Awui Eugenia, together with my twin sister Linda, we are the first survival of operated conjoined twins in Ghana”.
Lydia who has been an ardent follower of Nana Aba added that “just recently I have seen your post about the handsome conjoined twins who need help. After seeing them, I cried my heart reminiscing what I’m told we went through… I became happy at the same time sad seeing these enduring what we endured some time ago. But glory be to God that today my sister and I have grown up to be beautifully and wonderfully wonderful to the glory of God”.
This message has brought hope to several people who were in fear of the fact that the surgery could go wrong. According to them, it is refreshing to know that the surgery has been done before here in Ghana and that the twins survived to this age.
Others also thanked Nana Aba and said a prayer for the conjoined twins to come out of surgery successful so that they become as healthy as Linda and Lydia.
First separated conjoined twins honor J.J Rawlings
Lydia and Linda Awui were born conjoined and needed a procedure to be separated. Hard on cash, the Awui family was distraught and helpless until the intervention of Rawlings who was then the President of Ghana.
The late former President provided the necessary funding for the procedure and the Awui sisters were separated at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in 1999, three months after their birth.
Twenty years later, the sisters in the company of their parents, Eunice and Benjamin Awui, with one of the doctors, Dr. Appeadu-Mensah, a pediatric surgeon who undertook the momentous surgery, paid a visit to Ex-President Rawlings in 2019 to thank him.
The twins and their parents presented the former President with a plaque and adorned him with beads to express their appreciation for his support.
The separated conjoined twins have since lived a healthy life since their landmark surgical operation and completed their secondary education.
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