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Doctors: How we planned for watershed surgery at Kenyatta National Hospital

Kenyatta National Hospital attend to Blessings one of the 2-year-old conjoined twins after a successful conjoined twins separation by a chain of KNH doctors.They will be out of the ICU after two weeks. (PHOTO: JENIPHER WACHIE/ STANDARD)

It cost Sh160 million to perform the 23-hour operation that separated conjoined twins Blessing and Favour.

And it has now emerged that the team that made medical historical had planned for a 10-hour surgery but ended up spending nearly an entire day in theatre.

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