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By Our Staff Reporter
Conjoined twins - Veena and Vani - before the operation at Government General Hospital in Guntur.
GUNTUR, DEC. 24. The first stage of surgery to separate Siamese twins at Government General Hospital here on Friday was successful with paediatric surgeon, Y. Nayudamma, inserting skin expanders. The three-and-a-half hour operation by a team of 12 doctors from different specialties and 40 supporting staff was successful with the one-year-old conjoined twin sisters -- Veena and Vani -- withstanding the procedure.
Sigh of relief
Doctors, nurses and mediapersons watching the procedure online over a television screen outside the operation theatre heaved a sigh of relief at around 1 p.m. Dr. Nayudamma, performing the fourth operation at the hospital, was a relived man and told reporters that next stage of surgery would be performed after three months when the skin expands to the required extent. About 100 square centimetres area of the scalp would be covered after the separation in the second stage with an acrylic or synthetic material and the expanded skin would cover this area of both babies, he said. The operation had generated a lot of interest among people here with a number of persons from the medical fraternity making calls to the GGH Superintendent, Bhagavannarayana, on the development. The first caller was the district Collector, G. Jayalakshmi, to enquire about the condition of the babies. She visited the hospital in the evening to see them in person. The Minister for Cooperation, Kanna Lakshmi Narayana, congratulated Dr. Nayudamma. People were keenly following the complex operation as a similar operation of grown-up twin sisters in Iran this year was a failure.
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