Twins Who Shared Inner Organs Successfully Separated.

  Two Conjoined baby boys have been successfully separated in a complex nine-hour operated by a team of high professional doctors in Saudi Arabia.

Abdullah and Abdulrahman were taken from the Republic of Yemen to Saudi Arabia to be operated on at one of the best hospitals in the country. The multi-disciplinary medical team included consultants in Anaesthesiology,Paediatric,Orthopaedic,Plastic surgery  and Urinary Tract surgery as well as nursing and technical staff.

The difficult operation was carried out by a team of high professional surgeons. During preliminary tests,it was discovered that the twins shared inner organs,including the intestines. The operation lasted for more than eight hours and was carried out in nine stages. A hospital spokesman said,"The bowels needed to be separated as well as their urinary systems and then the pelvic bones".

The surgeons originally gave the twins a 60 to 70 percent chance of survival and they were right,the children survived and are recovering in the paediatric intensive care unit at the hospital. Saudi Arabia has a team of top surgeons in the separation of conjoined twins/with 30  successful cases from more than 18 countries over the past two decades.

Source:Dailymail.