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Conjoined Twins Separated At Local Hospital

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia,
Associated Press
Published September 8, 2015 at 8:56 AM EDT
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Surgeons at Children's Hospital in Columbus separated conjoined twin girls in a 16-hour operation performed last week. The 11-month-old girls from Uganda traveled to the hospital last December and are now recovering. Medical experts say conjoined twins occur once in every 200 thousand pregnancies.
 

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Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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