Indian Mother Give Birth to Conjoined Twins Sharing Nearly Every Organ

An Indian mother has given birth to conjoined twins who have two sets of hands but share one pair of legs.

The twins - a boy and girl - also share nearly every vital organ.

Their mother, Shivrajo Devi, 24, gave birth at a private clinic in a village in Buxar, Bihar, eastern India, on Wednesday evening. 

However their condition soon began to deteriorate and they were moved to Sadar Hospital in the city where medics gave them preliminary treatment in neo-natal intensive care unit.

Dr Raj Kumar Gupta, a paediatrician at Sadar Hospital, said: ‘They are fused from the waist and only one genital is visible which is of a girl.

'Even though the second genital is missing, we suspect the face of the second baby is a boy, which makes this case even more rare as conjoined twins are usually of the same gender.’

Indian Doctors Separate Nigerian Conjoined Twins

Badaru Mannir (L) holds his daughter Hassana Badaru (2L) while Hussaina Badaru (R) is held by her mother, after a surgery to separate the conjoined twins at BLK Super Speciality Hospital in New Delhi on September 4, 2013. The twins were joined at the back. AFP photo

Indian doctors declared Wednesday that a pair of formerly conjoined twins, born in Nigeria, 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, 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.

“Usually the twins are joined in the head or the upper body. It posed a huge challenge to our team of doctors,” Jain said.