https://thestreetjournal.org/saudi-arabian-surgeons-seperate-conjoined-nigerian-twins-in-14-hour-operation/

A team of Saudi Arabian surgeons in the country have successfully separated Hassanah and Hussaina, a conjoined Nigerian twins.

The surgery began on Thursday, May 18, 2023, at the King Abdullah Specialist Hospital for Children and was said to have lasted for 14 hours, involving eight different phases and a team of 35 doctors, medical experts and nurses.

The supervisor-general of King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center, and leader of the surgical team, Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Rabeeah, disclosed that following the separation, the reconstruction process has begun.

“We still have a couple of hours left for the reconstruction process, but thank God the decisive phase has passed,” he disclosed.

The twins, birthed at the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Kaduna, Nigeria in January 2022 were conjoined at the abdomen, pelvis, liver, intestines, urinary and reproductive systems and pelvic bones areas.

They were moved to the National Hospital in Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria where they stayed for about eight months without undergoing surgery due to lack of funds.

The government of Saudi Arabia, however, offered free surgery to the family.

Hassana and Hussaina, accompanied by their parents, arrived in Saudi Arabia on December 8, 2022, on an air medical evacuation plane.

This will be the 56th separation carried out by Saudi Arabia’s humanitarian programme in 33 years.

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Good job..

Wow, congratulations are in order