Separated twin fighting for life
Ganga Shrestha was fighting for her life in a Singapore hospital today, 10 days after surgeons separated her brain from that of her Siamese twin sister in a landmark operation.
The 11-month-old girl has a serious infection and is not doing well at all, said Dr Vincent Yeow, a plastic surgeon who was part of the Singapore hospital team that separated the Nepalese girls born joined at the head.
Ganga’s sister, Jamuna, was in great shape, he said.
Doctors were treating Ganga with antibiotics and hoping the drugs would help her fight the infection in her blood and brain.
‘‘We can’t do anything but change the dressings,’’ Yeow said, referring to the bandages on Ganga’s head. ‘‘Cross all your fingers and hope the antibiotics work.’’
Surgeons separated the girls in a 96-hour marathon operation that ended on April 10.
They opened the twins’ shared skull cavity and separated hundreds of tangled blood vessels connecting their two brains.
