Conjoined Twins Surgery In India - Dr. Prashant Jain
Conjoined Twins Surgery In India On 21st April, 2013, a super speciality team led by Dr Prashant Jain at BLK Super Specialty Hospital made a decision to save two precariously hanging newborn lives. By the night of 12th August, 2013 they had made history. The story behind the rarest of rare separation of conjoined twins at BLK Super Specialty Hospital. Twin girls Hussaina and Hassana were born conjoined in Nigeria on 28 August, 2012. Celebrations in the family soon turned to shock and sorrow, however. The twins were joined back to back (pygopagus in medical terms). To an extent that they had common urinary and vaginal opening and a common anus. A clan travels across continents in search of hope Perplexed by this rare condition, the doctors in Nigeria told the parents that surgical separation of the twins was possible but they would have to lose one of the two girls. Then fate intervened and they were referred to Dr Prashant Jain, Head Pediatric Surgery Department BLK Super Specialty Hos...