Two co-joined twins have been successfully separated
Abdullah and Abdulrahman were takenfrom the Republic of
Yemen to Saudi Arabia to be operated on at one of the best
hospitals in the country. The multi-disciplinary medical team
included consultants in anaesthesiology, paediatric,
orthopaedic, plastic surgery and urinary tract surgery as well as nursing and technical staff.

The difficult operation was carried out by a team of high
professional surgeons.
During preliminary tests it was discovered that the twins
shared inner organs, including the intestines. The operation
lasted for more than eight hours and was carried out in nine
stages. A hospital spokesman said, “The bowels needed to
be separated as well as their urinary systems and then the
pelvic bones.”
The surgeons originally gave the twins a 60 to 70 per cent
chance of survival and they were right, the children survived
and are recovering in the paediatric intensive care unit at
the hospital. Saudi Arabia has a team of top surgeons in the
separation of conjoined twins – with 30 successful cases
from more than 18 countries over the past two decades.
Different Days The multi-disciplinary medical team included consultants in anaesthesiology, paediatric, orthopaedic, plastic surgery and urinary tract surgery as well as nursing and technical staff People with similar cases come to Saudi Arabia from all over the world, including the Sudan, Yemen, Egypt, Malaysia, Philippines, Poland, Morocco and Iraq. Last week, ten-month-old conjoined baby girls, from Texas, USA, also survived a world-first operation to separate them!
The children survived and are recovering in the paediatric
intensive care unit at the hospital.

sub'anallah