RIYADH, Saydi Arabia — Conjoined twin girls born in the blockaded Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip were separated in “successful” surgery in Riyadh Monday, the state-run Saudi Press Agency says in a statement.
One-day-old Palestinian conjoined twins lie in an incubator at the nursery on October 22, 2017 at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.(Mahmud Hams/AFP)
Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Rabiah, who headed the team that operated on Farah and Haneen at the King Abdullah Specialist Children’s Hospital, “affirmed the success of the separation surgery,” SPA says.
The operation began on Monday morning, and involved nine stages of anesthesia and the separation of multiple organs, including the liver, as well as restoring organs in Haneen.
The news comes months after a doctor and family member of the twins pleaded from Gaza that they be allowed to go abroad for the complex surgery.
— AFP
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