Saudi doctors separate Yemeni conjoined twins
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Doctors in Saudi Arabia have successfully separated Yemeni conjoined twins after a “complicated” 15-hour operation.
The baby boys, Yussef and Yassin, were “conjoined in several organs”, and some 24 doctors were involved in the operation to separate them.
Yemen has been wrecked by a brutal seven-year conflict pitting the Saudi-backed government against Iran-backed Houthi rebels, whose seizure of the capital Sanaa in 2014 prompted a Saudi-led military coalition to intervene.
More than 150,000 people have died in the violence and the country’s health system has been devastated, in what the United Nations describes as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Saudi Arabia’s state-run King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) has often highlighted its humanitarian assistance to Yemen as evidence of Riyadh’s commitment to alleviating the suffering there.
The centre’s doctors carried out the “four-phase surgery” separating Yussef and Yassin, describing it as “among the most complicated” they had performed.
Last week Saudi King Salman ordered that yet another set of Yemeni conjoined twins- girls named Mawaddah and Rahmah- be transferred to Riyadh “to conduct medical examinations and check on the possibility” of separation, according to a Saudi media report.
The king “attaches big importance to the Saudi program for the Siamese twins,” the media report said.
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