Docs from Odisha meet twins Jaga, Balia at AIIMS
A team of doctors from Odisha today visited the conjoined twins from the coastal state, who underwent surgeries here for separation of their heads, to assess if they can to be shifted to AIIMS, Bhubaneswar for follow up treatment.Jaga and Balia, from Milipada village in Kandhamal district in Odisha, were craniopagus conjoined twins joined at the head, a very rare occurrence.
They were successfully separated after an 18-hour-long surgery at AIIMS in New Delhi in October last year.The team from departments of pediatrics, pediatric surgery, plastic surgery, medicine and neurosurgery met the doctors here looking after the children and received an update on their health condition.Four doctors were from the Cuttack Medical College while one doctor was from AIIMS, Bhubaneswar.A senior doctor at AIIMS, New Delhi said,
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