Difficult procedure: Doctors separated the conjoined twins during a marathon session that lasted more than 36 hours at a government hospital in New Delhi. — AFP
New Delhi: Doctors in India have successfully separated conjoined twin boys who were attached at the skull in a marathon surgical procedure that lasted more than 36 hours and involved 40 doctors.
The two-year-old twins, who suffered a rare condition occurring once in about 2.5 million births, underwent the operation at a government-run hospital in New Delhi on Wednesday.
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