HEALTH GOSSIP: The Joys of Motherhood, conjoined twins sucessfully seperated in a surgery involving 40 Doctors!

How beautiful it is to behold a Newborn Child and to see the Faces of the Parents(especially the mother). The Joy of a Mother at that point would be to hold the child in her arms and smile with so much joy written all over face. ''After nine months the product of my labour is born''. However, on rare occasions things can go wrong and mixed feelings could set in. Feelings of Why me? Why my child or children? Ohh Yes!!! But just before all hope is lost a Miracle ( yes A MIRACLE) presents itself through the 'gifted hands of Doctors' (God thanks for making us your tools of healing on earth). Here is a story of one of such miracles.

Nigerian sisters Hussaina and Hassana Badaru were born with an extremely rare condition which saw them joined at the hip sharing key body parts.

The Conjoined twins who shared spinal cords have successfully been separated in a gruelling 18-hour surgery.

The operation on one-year-old Nigerian sisters Hussaina and Hassana Badaru involved 40 doctors, and is only the fourth such separation in the world.
The pair, who were born with a condition called PYGOPAGUS in Kano, Nigeria, were joined at the hip and had spinal cord fusion, while also sharing lower gastrointestinal passage and genitalia.

Specialist surgeons at BLK Super Speciality Hospital in New Delhi conducted the separation on August 12 during two procedures - one to divide the twins followed by a reconstructive surgery.
The procedure - which cost an estimated £64,000 paid for by a Nigerian philanthropist - was so risky, doctors were forced to conduct practice runs on dummies before attempting it for real.

Dr Prashant Jain, the paediatric surgeon who led the team, said: "The separation of the Badaru twins was a big challenge as they had unusual sharing of alimentary canal, genitourinary system and nervous system.

"We overcame this with meticulous planning and team work. Rehearsals were carried out using dummies."
For the girls' parents, father Badaru and mother Malama Badariyya Badaru, it was the end of a long process to save their daughters.

After being born in Murtala Muhammed Specialist Hospital, Kano last year, they sought the help of local doctors to separate their twins.

But the diagnosis was simple - one of the girls would have to be sacrificed to save the other in order to carry out the separation surgery.

Desperate to save both their girls, they sought one last opinion, who referred them to New Delhi, where the chances of both surviving were deemed far greater.

After multiple evaluations their extreme case was identified as them sharing spinal core, lower intestinal tract and gentry urinary tracts.

Their surgery was split into three stages. The first on May 25 used tissue expanders made from silicon implanted in their bums to generate enough tissue to cover the surgery.

The second - and most crucial - was performed on August 12 with doctors physically separating the twins before plastic surgeons carried out extensive reconstructive procedures.

The third stage is due to take place in three weeks time.

Absolutely Miraculously God's handiwork.
So glad they both survived.

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