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History has been made in Haiti.
A surgical team led by Haiti-born surgeon, Dr. Henri Ford, completed the country’s first successful separation of conjoined twins, CBS News reported. On Friday, Marian and Michelle Dave-Nouche, a pair of 6-month-old sisters previously connected at the abdomen, left Haiti’s University Hospital of Mirebalais on Friday in two separate cribs.
“It’s extraordinary to see them lying on their backs,” the girls’ mother, Manousheka, told the news outlet.
“We now have two babies, two independent living organisms,” Dr. Ford said to CBS News following the surgery. “There is no satisfactory substitute for excellence!”
The girls are actually triplets — born on November 24, 2014 with their sister Tamar, to parents Manousheka and David Bernard. When an earthquake rocked Haiti five years ago, Bernard was trapped beneath rubble for seven days before he was rescued, the news outlet reported, and this successful procedure has proven to be another happy miracle for the family. According to the press release, by performing the procedure in Haiti, rather than Ford’s primary practice in Los Angeles, the twins could benefit from being close to their parents, and the surgery was less expensive.
