Badaru Mannir (L) holds his
daughter Hassana Badaru (2L) and Hussaina Badaru (R) after a surgery to
separate the conjoined twins at BLK Super Specialty Hospital in New
Delhi on September 4, 2013.
NEW DELHI (AFP) – Doctors declared Wednesday that a pair of formerly
conjoined twins 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 from Nigeria, 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.