Conjoined twins, 25 doctors and nurses and 10 hours. Result: medical marvel. At 6.30 am on Monday, Nigerian twins Peace and Patience were blissfully sleeping when doctors came knocking.
The eight-month-olds had travelled all the way from their home in Nigeria to Bangalore’s Narayana Health City to get their conjoined bodies separated.
Even before the sisters were wheeled into Operation Theatre-6 at the Narayana Hrudayalaya Multi-speciality hospital, the medical team had readied everything from scissors to single beds (once they are separated).
Considering the rarity and complexity of the surgery as Omalgaphagus co-joined twins occur only one in 1,00,000 births, the mood at the OT was upbeat and tense. Led by Dr Ashley Dcruz, the team was ready at the word go from the crack of the dawn.
Till 9 am, the preliminary procedures of identifying the fusion of the organs was on. “Considering the challenge of the case and complexity involved, we had a complete dry run of the process two days ago. We had put in place everything who will stand where, and how will the entire separation process take place. We had trained the entire medical team for Monday’s surgery. Every move was rehearsed,’’ Dr Ashley told The Times of India as he was overseeing the historical surgery. At the operation theatre there was equal measure of emotions.
Source http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Nigerian-Conjoined-Twins-Separated-In-Bangalore/articleshow/6021646.cms
The eight-month-olds had travelled all the way from their home in Nigeria to Bangalore’s Narayana Health City to get their conjoined bodies separated.
Even before the sisters were wheeled into Operation Theatre-6 at the Narayana Hrudayalaya Multi-speciality hospital, the medical team had readied everything from scissors to single beds (once they are separated).
Considering the rarity and complexity of the surgery as Omalgaphagus co-joined twins occur only one in 1,00,000 births, the mood at the OT was upbeat and tense. Led by Dr Ashley Dcruz, the team was ready at the word go from the crack of the dawn.
Till 9 am, the preliminary procedures of identifying the fusion of the organs was on. “Considering the challenge of the case and complexity involved, we had a complete dry run of the process two days ago. We had put in place everything who will stand where, and how will the entire separation process take place. We had trained the entire medical team for Monday’s surgery. Every move was rehearsed,’’ Dr Ashley told The Times of India as he was overseeing the historical surgery. At the operation theatre there was equal measure of emotions.
Source http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/Nigerian-Conjoined-Twins-Separated-In-Bangalore/articleshow/6021646.cms
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