Saudi Gazette report

RIYADH — The Surgical Separation of Tanzanian conjoined Twins — Hassan and Hussein — was topped with success after a fancy operation that took 16 hours over 9 levels on Thursday.

Advisor on the Royal Court docket and Basic Supervisor of the King Salman Humanitarian Help and Aid Middle (KSRelief) Dr. Abdullah Al Rabeeah headed the Medical Workforce that carried out the surgical procedure on the King Abdullah Kids’s Specialist Hospital within the King Abdulaziz Medical Metropolis beneath the Ministry of Nationwide Guard. That is in implementation of the directives of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman.

A medical workforce of 35 consultants, specialists, and technical, nursing and help employees participated within the surgical separation. After the profitable separation of the twins, Dr. Al-Rabeeah mentioned the operation was carried out beneath the directives of the Saudi management. It marked the 59th operation beneath the Saudi Program for the Separation of Conjoined Twins that began in 1990.

Over the course of the previous 33 years, this system was capable of comply with up 133 circumstances of conjoined twins from 24 international locations and has been profitable in conducting surgical separation of 59 conjoined twins. Dr. Al-Rabeeah thanked members of the medical workforce for his or her nice efforts and congratulated the mom of the twins and the Tanzanian folks on the success of the surgical separation.

Tanzanian Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Ali Jabir Mwadini expressed thanks and gratitude to King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salam in addition to to the medical workforce. He appreciated the Kingdom’s generosity, noble gestures and initiatives, and its humanitarian help being prolonged to all needy folks all over the world.

The mom of Hassan and Hussein prolonged her honest thanks and gratitude to King Salman, the Crown Prince, and members of the medical workforce. She praised the Kingdom’s nice humanitarian work and the nice and cozy reception and hospitality accorded to them since their arrival within the Kingdom. The mom prayed to God Almighty to guard the Saudi management and bestow them with the very best reward, and to protect and perpetuate the security and safety of Saudi Arabia.

The Tanzanian twins are two years outdated and weigh 13.5 kilograms collectively. Accompanied by their mom, the twins had been airlifted from the town of Dar es Salaam of Tanzania on board a medical evacuation aircraft on Aug. 23.

After their arrival, the twins had been transferred to King Abdullah Kids’s Specialist Hospital the place that they had undergone the required medical checkups and examinations earlier than conducting their profitable surgical separation. It was present in a number of medical checkups that the twins had been conjoined on the decrease chest, stomach, pelvis, liver, intestines, urinary tract, and have one male reproductive organ.