Odisha

Separated Conjoined Twins Jaga-Kalia To Be Discharged From AIIMS-New Delhi Soon

Bhubaneswar: Separated conjoined twins, Jaga and Kalia, are recovering fast. They will be discharged from the hospital in a month or two, informed AIIMS, New Delhi, Neurology Department Chief Deepak Gupta on Thursday.

“Jaga is absolutely fine. He is interacting with the doctors treating him here. Similarly, the health condition of Kalia, whose recovery has been slower than Jaga, is also improving at a good pace. Jaga, who was unable to consume food properly, is now taking food without any hassle with the pipe connected to his mouth removed this morning,” he said.

On May 2, the doctors of the hospital had informed that the twins were seen playing with each other and their parents without the specially-designed protective gear provided to them during the skin grafting treatment.

They will be sent back to Odisha soon as the risk of infection has considerably reduced now, the doctors had added.

The twins from Milipada village in Kandhamal district were joined at the head. They were successfully separated after an 11-hour marathon surgery at AIIMS New Delhi by a team of 30 specialists from neurosurgery, neuro-anaesthesia and plastic surgery departments on October 25 last year.

The Odisha government had sanctioned Rs 1 crore for the surgery.

While conjoined twins are known to occur in about every 2,00,000 birth, craniopagus twins are rarer, accounting for about only 2 percent.

OB Bureau

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