Photo: Audrey Taula, Life Flight and NEST retrieval team
Surgery in Australia to separate fragile conjoined twins from Papua New Guinea is imminent, as one of the tiny boys is failing fast.
The twins reached a "critical point " and were medivacced from Port Moresby to Sydney last week following a medical recommendation that they be divided urgently.
The move followed weeks of tense wrangling over the viability of surgical separation, which country would accept the case and perform the operation and how it would be financed.
Specialists from the Sydney Children's Hospital Network flew to Port Moresby on Thursd
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