CONJOINED TWINS READY TO SEPARATE
CONJOINED 14-month-old twins from Bhutan are due to meet with surgeons at The Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne for a life-changing operation.
Nima and Dawa Pelden, joined at the stomach, will undergo surgery to separate them following fundraising by Children First Foundation.
The girls were to arrive in Melbourne yesterday. Children First Foundation chief executive Elizabeth Lodge said they were relying on the lifechanging surgery.
“Their lives will be changed forever as a result of this extraordinary surgery,” she told 3AW radio.
“We want them completely independent and doing their own thing, and getting home and giving their brothers and sisters a hard time.”
Ms Lodge said the twins were “doing very well” but struggling with weight loss and would meet the surgeons in the next couple of days.
RCH head of paediatric surgery Joe Crameri said, while they were prepared to go for days, he hoped the surgery would take up to eight hours.