Yahoo – AFP,
January 8, 2018
October 22, 2017: day-old Palestinian conjoined twins Farah and Haneen in an incubator at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City (AFP Photo/MAHMUD HAMS) |
Riyadh
(AFP) - 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 said in a statement.
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 said.
The
operation began on Monday morning, and involved nine stages of anaesthesia 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.
Allam Abu
Hamda, head of the neonatal unit at Gaza's Shifa Hospital, told AFP in October
the girls were born joined at the stomach and pelvis and that the complicated
condition could not be dealt with in the enclave.
Israel has
maintained a blockade of the enclave for a decade, citing security fears over
Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas.
Conjoined
twins who share key organs have a low chance of survival.
Farah and
Haneen, whose condition Abu Hamda said was stable, have one shared leg but
separate hearts and lungs.
Conjoined
twins born in Gaza in November 2016 later died.
In 2010,
conjoined twins from Gaza were transferred to Saudi Arabia for surgery to
separate them, but doctors in Riyadh said their condition was too delicate to
operate and they died.
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