Eight months ago, two infant girls defied a grim prognosis in a Suva hospital, becoming Fiji's first conjoined twins in twenty years. Now Di Cecea and Jesipeli Kikau are traveling to Riyadh, carried by their family's faith and the generosity of a distant government, to face a surgery that medicine cannot fully promise. Their story sits at the intersection of human fragility and human reach — the lengths a family will travel, and the lengths the world will sometimes travel toward a family.
Fijian conjoined twins head to Saudi Arabia for separation surgery
Two infant girls face complex separation surgery with inherent medical risks; their survival depends on successful surgical intervention in a rare medical case.