[gallery size="medium" td_select_gallery_slide="slide" td_gallery_title_input="Pak conjoined twins successfully separated in Riyadh" ids="44442,44443,44441,44440"] RIYADH – Pakistani conjoined twins Fatima and Mashael were successfully separated in a surgery at King Abdullah Specialist Hospital for Children in King Abdulaziz Medical City for the National Guard in Riyadh on Saturday, the Saudi Press Agency reported citing a statement by the medical team that conducted the operation. Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, head of the medical team who is also an adviser at the Royal Court, said the twins were separated successfully after the six-stage surgery that lasted a total of seven hours. The medical team consisted of 20 doctors and specialists. The twins arrived in Riyadh on March 3 after Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman gave directives to host them with their parents at the medical city to study the possibility of separating them. Al-Rabeeah said several medical tests had been conducted on the female twins, who were joined at the lower chest and abdomen, and shared one liver. He had estimated an 80 percent chance for the success of the operation. Fatima and Mashael are the 40th pair of twins to be separated by surgery at the medical city out of 94 cases referred by the National Program for Separation of Conjoined Twins.
