The 28-month-old children from Milipada village in the Kandhamal district of Odisha were born in April 2015 with their heads joined
Five months after the operation that separated the craniopagus conjoined twins from Odisha, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has told the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) that the twins are now well and do not need any specialised care. Jagga and Balia joined at the head, were operated upon in October last year in a 21-hour-long surgery after which they have been at the hospital.
Last month, the NHRC had asked the hospital to give a report in response to a petition filed by Supreme Court advocate Radhakanta Tripathy that said that AIIMS' Bhubaneshwar does not have the essential infrastructure for the treatment and care of the twins and thus should be prevented from shifting to a state-level hospital.
The premier medical institute, however, told the human rights panel that the twins are now clinically well and can be taken care of at a hospital in Odisha which has good pediatric support. It said that the risk of life five months after the surgery is very low and continued care can be provided by the state government.
In what was one of the rarest surgeries in the country, the craniopagus twins were separated on October 25, 2017, by a team of 30 specialists, who were part of the team of 125 medical professionals, including 50 paramedical staff and 75 doctors from all departments. The operation was headed by Dr AK Mahapatra, Chief of Neurosciences Centre at AIIMS. The surgery started at 9 am and got over the next day at 3 am.
On October 19, Jagia showed some heart ailment and his condition started to deteriorate, following which on a semi-urgent basis, the surgery was planned.
A polylactic acid model was created on which a team of doctors from AIIMS ran two eight-hour-long dry rehearsals in the operation theatre followed by a 24-hour-long marathon operation to make sure that everything ran smoothly. This was the first time in the country that a 3D model was used for practice.
The 28-month-old children from Milipada village in the Kandhamal district of Odisha were born in April 2015 with their heads joined. The farmer family, initially shocked, accepted and pampered the children.
Both were immediately shifted to a medical college 24 hours after birth where they lived for first five months, to pass the initial stage. Five-months old, both were sent back to the village where they lived with their grandparents, uncle, aunt, and parents.
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The 28-month-old children from Milipada village in the Kandhamal district of Odisha were born in April 2015 with their heads joined. The farmer family, initially shocked, accepted and pampered the children.
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