Bothwell Mbuwayesango

Bothwell Anesu Mbuwayesango is a Zimbabwean pediatric surgeon who successfully led an all Zimbabwean team that separated conjoined twins in 2014 during an eight-hour operation at Harare hospital; it was the country's second successful separation, the first was in 1985. The two-month-old male twins were joined at the chest and abdomen (including the liver - which can bleed heavily if cut). In 2021 Mbuwayesango led another successful separation during an eighteen-hour surgery at the same hospital. Mr Mbuwayesango was a Council member of the Medical and Dental Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe. He has published articles in the medical literature.

Research interests

 * Gastroschisis
 * Obstructive jaundice
 * Intussusception
 * Minimal access surgery

External video
Separating siamese twins in a low resource hospital