Saudi doctors separate conjoined twins in Yemen
Published: 05:05 PM,May 16,2022 | EDITED : 09:05 PM,May 16,2022
Doctors in Saudi Arabia have successfully separated conjoined twins from Yemen after a 'complicated' 15-hour operation, Saudi state media reported. The baby boys, Yussef and Yassin, were 'conjoined in several organs', and some 24 doctors were involved in the operation to separate them, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said.
The centre's doctors carried out the 'four-phase surgery' separating Yussef and Yassin, describing it as 'among the most complicated' they had performed, the SPA said. Last July Saudi doctors separated a Yemeni baby from her parasitic twin, saying at the time it was their 50th successful operation on conjoined twins. In December a separate set of Yemeni twins were separated by doctors in Jordan's capital Amman before being flown back to Sanaa, according to the UN children's agency. - AFP
The centre's doctors carried out the 'four-phase surgery' separating Yussef and Yassin, describing it as 'among the most complicated' they had performed, the SPA said. Last July Saudi doctors separated a Yemeni baby from her parasitic twin, saying at the time it was their 50th successful operation on conjoined twins. In December a separate set of Yemeni twins were separated by doctors in Jordan's capital Amman before being flown back to Sanaa, according to the UN children's agency. - AFP