Conjoined Twins from Nigeria Get Separated in India

Hassana and Hussaina, conjoined twins can now lead separate lives. The twins shared their spinal cords, lower intestinal tract and genitourinary tracts. This meant that they had one common passage for fecal matter and another one for passing urine.

But after the surgeryconducted by a team doctors involving 10 super-specialties at a private super-specialty hospital in the capital they are now separated.


"The separation surgery took 13 hours, with further surgery of five hours for reconstruction," said Dr Prashant Jain, consultant of paediatric surgery at BLK Super-specialty Hospital, who led the surgery.

Praneet Kumar, CEO, said, "The girls were seven months old when they were brought here. They suffered from pygopagus, a case in which the babies are joined in the sacral region. It's a rarest of rare case that occurs in 50,000 or 1,00,000 births."

Doctors said incidence of conjoined twins is high in southwest Asia and Africa, with cases in Nigeria as high as 53 per 1,000 deliveries.