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Separated Siamese twins doing well

STAFF CORRESPONDENT
Siamese twins -- Hasan and Hossain -- are progressing very well after their separation operation on Tuesday.
Doctors removed artificial ventilation system in the morning yesterday and kept them under supervision. Hossain is at the Salahuddin Hospital and Hasan at the Neonatal Hospital in Dhanmandi.
"We are very hopeful about the chances of their survival," Dr Ruhul Amin, the surgeon who led the seven-hour long very compli-
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cated operation at the Islami Bank Hospital, told The Daily Star yesterday.
The rare type of twinning has long been an enigma to physician across the globe. A separation operation can last more than a hundred-hour even with survival chances not very encouraging.
Born joined at the abdomen, the twins were admitted to the Khulna Islami Bank Hospital 22 days after their birth on April 18 through a caesarian operation at a clinic in Raghunathpur village of Dumuria upazila, Khulna. Their parents -Jasmin Begum and rickshaw van driver Abdul Halim, have a five-year-old daughter.
Abdomens of both the infants are temporarily closed by using mesh. Walls of the abdomen will be closed once their health condition becomes stable, doctors said.
Dr Maqsudul Alam, who is now supervising the anesthetic support of the twins, said, "It's a rare case but we are very hopeful about
chances for their survival. It now depends on the management of the infants as they are not out of danger yet."
The infants did not require artificial respiratory support anymore, which is a positive sign, Maqsudul said.
An associate professor of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital (BSMMU), Dr Ruhul Amin along with a team of surgeons and anesthetists went to Khulna to conduct the operation. But as one of the twins developed severe respiratory problem, the doctors were compelled to postpone the highly delicate surgery there.
The conjoined twins were then flown in to Dhaka along with their parents.
The Islami Bank Hospital, a subsidiary organisation of the Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited, is bearing all the expenses including operation and treatment of the twins.