NEW DELHI - Doctors separated 10-month-old conjoined twin boys in five hours of surgery in central India on Tuesday.
The babies, who had been joined at the abdomen, were doing well, Press Trust of India quoted the head surgeon at Raipur Medical College, Ashok Sharma, as saying. "We see a good chance of their survival," he said.
Sharma said the boys' liver, pancreas and sternum were separated during the surgery at a hospital in Raipur, capital of the central state of Chhattisgarh.
The boys, Ram and Lakshman, are the sons of poor farm laborers who live in a village in Chhattisgarh state.
