Indian doctors declared Wednesday that a pair
of formerly conjoined twins, born in Nigeria, were healthy and happy after they
were successfully separated in a marathon “nerve-wracking” operation in India
by a team of 40 specialists.
The one-year-old girls, sporting matching
bright pink dresses, sat patiently on their parents’ laps as doctors explained
the separation last month during an 18-hour operation at a New Delhi hospital.
“They were fused at their back when they came
to us which is very rare,” paediatric surgeon Prashant Jain told AFP.
“Usually the twins are joined in the head or
the upper body. It posed a huge challenge to our team of doctors,” Jain said.
Doctors held the
media conference in New Delhi as the twins, Hussaina and Hassana, sat happily,
grabbing at a mobile phone, clutching a rattle and trying to pull off their
mother’s earrings.
Malama
Badariyya Badaru, the mother of the twins, said she was overjoyed at finally
being able to hold the girls in her arms “individually”.
So happy for the twins, you can literally see the joy in their eyes. Beautiful girls. So happy for their parents too.
The joy of SCIENCE.
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