By IANS,
New Delhi : A team of doctors from Delhi will soon operate upon year-and-half-old conjoined twins from Bihar.
Doctors at Batra Hospital in the capital are examining the twins – Sita and Gita – before taking up the task of separating them.
“They have separate heads, hands and legs but are joined at the waist having one faecal and urinary tract. It is a challenging and risky task but we are hopeful to separate the babies,” said Dr Sanjeev Bagai, senior consultant pediatrician and Nephrologist, Batra Hospital.
According to doctors, conjoined twins are rare, occurring in about one in every 200,000 births. The overall survival rate of conjoined twins is somewhere between 5 to 25 percent. Historical records over the past 500 years detail about 600 surviving sets of conjoined twins.
The hospital’s intervention was no less than a miracle for the twins’ parents who had lost all hopes of their daughters leading a normal life.
“It was a godly intervention when Dr. Ajay Kumar of Patna promised us all possible help, including monetary, for the surgery and got us here. I am hopeful that my daughters will be separated soon,” said Subhash Mukhia, father of the girls, who works as a labourer in Bhawanipur village in West Champaran district of Bihar.