Ten Years After: Medical Tourism Surgery Is Cause for Celebration

October 10, 2014

(Medical Tourism Magazine) – A decade has passed since Carl and Clarence Aquirre, conjoined twins from the Philippines, embarked on a medical tourism journey to the United States. And although surgery at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City in 2003 was not without flaws, their separation is reason enough for their mother to celebrate the anniversary of her decision to take advantage of a medical tourism opportunity. “When they were born, the doctors at home (Philippines) told me, ‘You have to choose which one is to live,” Arlene Aquirre told CBS. “I said, ‘I cannot choose that.’ The doctors here (New York) did not ask me to choose.”