Afghan doctors at the French Medical Institute for Children (FMIC) have successfully separated 15-day-old conjoined twin girls in Kabul – the first time that such surgery has been carried out in Afghanistan.
The head of surgery at the FMIC, Jalil Wardak, said the babies were transferred from north-eastern Badakhshan province to the hospital recently in preparation for the surgery. He said they had been joined at the abdomen.
The twins are from a poor and vulnerable family and were able to travel to Kabul and undergo the surgery through the help of a charity organization.
“Doctors of Faizabad Hospital in Badakhshan helped transfer the newborn babies to Kabul and they underwent the operation with the help of the hospital’s charity unit,” Abdullah Fahim, FMIC chairman told TOLOnews.
The chief surgeon who did the rare operation was assisted by a number of colleagues, and said the babies were attached at abdomen, digestive system and they shared a number of arteries and veins; but the operation was successful and the shared organs were separated.
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