Bangladesh surgeons to separate conjoined twin girls

The two-and-a-half year old girls, Labiba and Lamisa, were born joined at the back and share a spine, genitalia and part of their intestinal tract.

"My babies cannot sit or properly lie down together," said Monufa Begum, the 20-year-old mother of the twins. A team of 35 doctors will oversee an expected 10-hour operation to separate the pair after two months of tests to determine whether the procedure was possible. "I am very worried but simultaneously excited. It would be great to see my daughters walking and living separately," he told AFP.The Dhaka Medical College Hospital is covering costs of the surgery and doctors there are hopeful about Monday's outcome after safely separating two other sets of conjoined twins in 2017 and 2018.

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