Nigerian conjoined twins "healthy" after operation in India
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Doctors declared Wednesday that a pair of formerly conjoined twins were healthy and happy after they were successfully separated in a marathon "nerve-wracking" operation in India by a team of 40 specialists. The one-year-old girls from Nigeria, sporting matching bright pink dresses, sat patiently on their parents' laps as doctors explained the separation last month during an 18-hour operation at a New Delhi hospital. "They were fused at their back when they came to us which is very rare," paediatric surgeon Prashant Jain told AFP. [caption id="attachment_412259" align="alignnone" width="412"] Badaru Mannir (L) holds his daughter Hassana Badaru (2L) and Hussaina Badaru (R) after a surgery to separate the conjoined twins at BLK Super Specialty Hospital in New Delhi on September 4, 2013.[/caption] "Usually the twins are joined in the head or the upper body. It posed a huge challenge to our team of doctors,...