Conjoined twins Stuti and Aradhna were successfully separated after a day-long complex surgery conducted by a team of 34 medical experts, including 23 doctors, drawn from India and abroad.
The complicated surgical procedure was carried out at Missionary Hospital in Padhar in Madhya Pradesh. The one-year-old sisters, who were joined at heart and liver. After nearly two hours, a team of surgeons separated their heart which was again transplanted into them in two pieces.
During the third phase, surgeons separated their livers through a critical surgery. In the last phase, their other body parts were separated and sealed as required under such surgeries. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan had paid Rs 20 lakh from the Chief Minister’s discretionary fund for the duo’s expensive surgery. The sisters were born on May 2, 2011 to Maya Yadav, a resident of Chudiya village under Chicholi block of Betul district. Since the woman and her husband, a poor farmer, were unable to bear the huge expenses required for the delicate surgery, they donated them to the hospital.
