Conjoined twins delivered at a rural hospital in Papua New Guinea have been flown to Port Moresby ahead of an expected journey to Sydney.

The boys, who are yet to be named, were born at Braun Hospital in Finschafen in Morobe province on Friday.

Kovei Umba, one of the doctors who helped deliver the twins, said he initially did not think the boys would survive, but they had started breastfeeding.

"They are doing well," he said.

Fatima Kevin, the mother of the twins, said her doctor saw there were two heads and two heartbeats before she was discharged from her normal clinic on Wednesday last week.

"On Friday, my water broke and they had to do a caesarean operation for me to have my babies," she said.

The doctors had not been expecting the twins to be conjoined.

"After the operation, th

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