Budapest hospital team to assist Siamese twins' separation in Dhaka

A team of 11 doctors and medical assistants led by neurosurgeon Andras Csokay from Budapest's Honved Hospital will assist with the last operation to separate a pair of Siamese twins conjoined at their skulls and brains, the hospital said on Wednesday. Preparatory surgery to separate three-year-old Rabeya and Rokaiya was performed in Hungary on January 25 this year. During the operation led by dr Gergely Pataki, a tissue expander system of Hungarian design was implanted, the Action For Defenceless People Foundation has told MTI. The operation was part of the second phase of a series on interventions aimed at separating the twins. The first phase, including groundbreaking work to separate the blood flow of the brains, was conducted by a Hungarian team led by Istvan Hudak in Bangladesh in August 2018.