SINGAPORE (Agencies) - Two 15-month-old Indonesian twin girls formerly fused at the stomach and hips are breathing without ventilators and being fed orally, two days after surgery to separate them, doctors said on Monday.
Previously conjoined twins Anggi and Anjeli were separated in marathon 10-hour surgery involving 16 doctors at Singapore's Gleneagles Hospital on Saturday.
The twins were born fused at the stomach and hip, and they had three legs. Following the surgery, the girls have one leg each and will later be fitted with artificial limbs.
"The twins are very stable. Angeli has also been taken off the ventilator," said lead surgeon Dr. Tan Kai Chah in a statement on Monday. Her sister's ventilator was removed on Sunday.
"We have started to orally feed them water and glucose," Dr. Tan said in a brief statement.
Hospital officials said the discounted cost of the operation was 450,000 Singapore dollars (US$273,000), which was shouldered by an Indonesian sponsor.
Without the discount, it would have cost 700,000 dollars.
It was the third successful separation of conjoined twins in the wealthy city-state, which has emerged as a center for advanced medical operations in recent years.
Taken from The Jakarta Post
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