Conjoined twins separated at DMCH

The 10-month old conjoined twin girls from Gaibandha, Toufa and Tahura, were separated through a nine-hour surgery at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital on Tuesday.
‘We began the surgery at 8:00am and ended at 5:00pm. A team of 22 experts from paediatric surgery, plastic surgery, neurosurgery, urology, orthopaedic surgery and anaesthesiology department conducted the surgery,’ said paediatric surgery department associate professor Shahnoor Islam, who led the surgery.
‘The twins who were joined in the waist regained consciousness immediately after the separation. They cried and moved their hands and legs,’ said delighted Shahanoor, emerging from the operation theatre at about 5:30pm.
‘Thanks Allah. I saw them moving legs. I am so happy that I cannot express in words. Now I hope they would recover soon,’ said the twins’ mother Shahida Begum of Jhinia village at Sundarganj in Gaibandha, who was in front of the operation theatre along with her husband Raju Miah and father Shahidul Alam.
She said that the conjoined babies were born in September 2016 normally at her father’s home at Kajdah village the same upazila.
‘It was challenging. However, we could complete the separation surgery successfully due to effective teamwork,’ Shahanoor said.
‘But they are not out of risk. There is utter risk of infection. They may face infection anytime,’ she added.
She said that they kept the babies isolated under intensive care at the post-operative unit of the hospital.
‘It is not possible to say right now how much time they would need to recover fully. We will see it keeping them under close monitoring,’ she said.
She said that they separated a number of organs of the girls, including joins in the waist, spinal cords, vaginas, rectums and urinal tracts.
The paediatric surgeon said that the babies would need further repair of their sex organs, rectums and urinal tracts through a series of surgeries and they would conduct their next surgery after three to six months.

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