PM Hasina meets separated conjoined twins

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday visited conjoined twins — Rabeya and Rukaya — at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in the capital.

“The prime minister visited the twins at the CMH this afternoon and enquired about their condition from the on-duty doctors there,” PM’s press secretary Ihsanul Karim said to BSS.

Chief of army staff general Aziz Ahmed and other senior military and civil officials were present on the occasion.

The conjoined twins were separated after a successful 33-hour operation at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) on 2 August.

The surgery was carried out with the support of prime minister Sheikh Hasina and Defenceless People Foundation (ADPF), an agency of the Hungarian government.

Earlier they were sent to Hungary for treatment and prime minister Sheikh Hasina bore their entire treatment cost at home and abroad.

The three and half years old twins, who were born with joint heads, suffered from a rare embryological disorder affecting an estimated one in every five to six million births. They are from Chatmohor upazila in Pabna.