Click to play videoNew Delhi: In a miracle of sorts a set of conjoined twins were successfully separated by a team of doctors in a government hospital in Raipur. The babies named Ram and Laxman are currently recovering in post-operative care.
It took over five hours to separate 10-month-old conjoined twins Ram and Laxman. The twins who were joined to each other from the chest to the stomach shared a common liver and pancreas.
Ram and Laxman's mother Premvati Kole, “The children have faced a lot of problem in feeding, bathing etc because of the fact that they are joined to each other."
The twins who were successfully separated after undergoing a rare surgical operation on Tuesday morning at the Ambedkar hospital in Raipur. Doctors at the hospital have been preparing the children for the operation for almost 9months now.
Cases of conjoined twins are extremely rare and happen in approximately one in 1,00,000 cases.
Conjoined twins originate from a single fertilized egg and so always belong to the same sex. Babies in more than half such cases are stillborn, and one in three live for only a few days.
The overall survival rate of conjoined twins is somewhere between 5 per cent to 25 per cent.
Doctors at the Ambedkar hospital offered to conduct this surgery, which would have cost between Rs 5 to Rs 10 lakh for absolutely no cost considering the fact that the parents were not well off.
But the trial is not over yet, post-operative care is vital and doctors are leaving no stone unturned to ensure that the twins come out healthy and united in spirit alone.
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