A local hospital’s medical team managed to separate twin kids, who were joined at the abdomen by birth, after a 7-hour surgery.
The boys, named Ibrahim and Ismail, were separated during the complicated surgery that took place on Monday morning at Lahore’s Children Hospital, by a team of ten doctors led by Dr. Mehmood Shaukat.
According to the hospital administration, Ibrahim‘s condition is critical while Ismail’s life is out of danger. Both have been shifted to the intensive care unit (ICU) after the surgery.
Earlier, a board at the Children’s Hospital had recommended their surgery in Saudi Arabia with an estimated cost of around Rs10 million, but a special board at the King Edward Medical College last week ruled out the possibility of moving them to KSA due to delay in issuance of grant by the provincial government.
Conjoined twins occur once every 200,000 births and most do not survive. About 40 to 60 per cent of conjoined twins arrive stillborn, and about 35 per cent survive just a day, according to the University of Maryland Medical Centre.
