Nima and Dawa, the two Bhutanese conjoined twins have gone through marathon surgery and the operation is successful and are in a strong condition by the effort of Royal Children’s Hospital surgeons in Australia.
Nima and Dawa are about one year old joined at the lower chest and this operation were suppose to have about four weeks ago but doctors were concerned the twins’ nutrients were not in the right balance ahead of the planned operation. During the Operation their mom Ms Zangmo were praying at a Buddhist temple.
About 18 medical staff, including doctors, nurses and anesthetists, tended to the two 15-month-old girls during the six-hour surgery, where their shared organs had to be disentangled. Surprisingly the result is Nima and Dawa have emerged so strong from their surgery that they are not expected to require intensive care and may instead be able to wake in separate beds for the first time later today.
“The one thing I got right about this operation it would take about six hours and that is about as long as it took,” saying this Dr Crameri added “There you go, I got one thing right.”
“We know the bowel is mixed and it could be entirely separate and sitting next to one another or it also can be that the girls share the bowel and we have to find a way of dividing that.”
On Thursday afternoon, the twins traveled to Melbourne from Kilmore, where they had been staying at the country retreat of the Children First Foundation. From that point on, to avoid confusion, Nima was known as “Green” and Dawa as “Red”. All the doctors, nurses and surgical equipment assigned to each girl were also color-coded.
The procedure and recovery are expected to cost at least $350,000 and the state government has offered to pay the bill.
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