Photo: Supplied / Manolos Aviation
A medical team from Australia is in Papua New Guinea assessing tiny conjoined twins who are fighting for survival.
The parents of six-week-old Tom and Sawong are desperate for their boys to be surgically separated, despite previous medical advice against it.
The twins, whose combined weight is only 2.9kg, were born in Morobe province on 9 October, joined at the abdomen.
They were flown by helicopter to Port Moresby General Hospital, where they received basic care in the neo-natal unit
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