Keith Goh (simplified Chinese: 吴有晶; traditional Chinese: 吳有晶; pinyin: Wú Yǒu Jīng) is a neurosurgeon from Singapore. Goh is known for his operations in separating conjoined twins with two known successful cases and a failed attempt in separating Ladan and Laleh Bijani.
Career
editIn 2001, Goh had successfully led a surgical team in separating a set of conjoined twins. It was the first surgery on such separation of conjoined twins in Singapore.
In 2003, Goh was a consultant neurosurgeon at Raffles Hospital.[1] In the same year, he led an international medical and surgical team and attempted to separate adult conjoined twins, Ladan and Laleh Bijani, who were joined at the head.[2] The operation, carried out in Raffles Hospital, was unsuccessful leading to the deaths of the twins shortly after separation.[1]
Shortly after the operation on the Bijani twins, Goh successfully led a team to separate a pair of conjoined twins, 4-month-old Korean girls who were joined at the base of their spine, on 22 July.[3] The family of the Korean twins had consulted Goh before the Bijani twins and managed to raise funds for the operation shortly after the Bijani twins' operation.[3]
As of 2004, Goh became an associate professor of neurosurgery at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.[1]
In 2009, he agreed to operate on another pair of conjoined twins, Vani and Veena, in India. The Indian government consented to fund the cost of the separation operation.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b c Lee, Hui Chieh (7 March 2004). "Bijani sisters' deaths : Docs not to blame". The Straits Times. p. 8.
- ^ "World's first separation of adult Siamese twins in Singapore". National Library, Singapore. Archived from the original on 20 August 2011. Retrieved 27 December 2010.
- ^ a b Davis, Joshua. "Till Death Do Us Part". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
- ^ "Singapore surgeon to separate twins". AsiaOne. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 27 December 2010.
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