Separated conjoined twins now major risk-free: CMH

Conjoined twins — Rabeya and Rukaya–who were born with joint heads, are now major risk free after the eighth day of their successful operation at Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in the city.

The information came out at a press briefing, organised by the CMH at its conference room.

Commandant of CMH Brigadier General Taufiqul Hasan, Samanto Lal Sen, Habib E Millat, Major General M Fashiur Rahman from DGMS spoke at the briefing.

Hungarian physicians– Andres Csokay and Marcel– also spoke.

The 33-hour long surgery, which separated their skulls and brains, ended on 2 August, where more than hundred surgeons and anesthetists from home and abroad took part.

With the support of prime minister Sheikh Hasina and Defenceless People Foundation (ADPF), an agency of the Hungarian government, the operation of conjoined twins was carried out.

Experts from Hungary, the Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute, the Heart Foundation, the National Institute of Neurosciences and Hospital, the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital and the Dhaka Shishu Hospital took part in the very intricate surgery.

Chief coordinator of the Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute Samanta Lal Sen coordinated the surgery.

The physicians mentioned that Rabeya and Rukaya, from the rural northwestern district of Pabna, were stated to be ‘stable after the final separation’.

“Another surgery would be carried out after two to three months later,” the physicians said, adding that this type of joint work would strengthen the bilateral relations between both the countries.

The three-year-old twins suffered from a rare embryological disorder affecting an estimated one in every five to six million births.