Twins on mend after successful separation
POLISH conjoined twins were recovering in intensive care yesterday after being separated by a team of 50 Saudi doctors in an 18-hour operation.
The 13-month-old girls, Daria and Olga Kolacz, were joined at the spine, intestines, urinary system and sexual organs.
After the surgery, their mother, Wieslawa Dabrowska, said the offer of surgery from Saudi Arabia had been "like a fairy tale".
"I trusted and I still trust that everything will be fine," she said. "If I weren’t so terribly tired I would be jumping with joy. Now I can buy the girls separate clothes. I go shopping tomorrow. I am so happy."
Doctors said the two girls would be released from the intensive care unit in about two weeks if no complications occurred.
Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia paid the medical and travel expenses of the twins and their mother after being informed about the case by a Saudi doctor.
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