Surgery a Success for Twins Joined at Head
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Doctors at Singapore General Hospital successfully separated 11-month-old Nepalese twins Jamuna and Ganga Shrestha, who were born joined at the head.
Jamuna--the more bashful sister--was wheeled out wearing a tiny surgical cap after the operation.
The surgery for the other sister, Ganga, took longer because she needed more “complex reconstruction,” physician Keith Goh said.
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