After successful completion of the first-phase separation surgery, the heads-conjoined twin boys, Jaga and Balia of Kandhamal, have been kept on ventilator at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi, said neurosurgeon Dr Ashok Mohapatra on Tuesday.
“After administering anaesthesia to the twins on Monday at 5 am, the operation had been undertaken at 10.30 am. It continued till 6 am today, and they were brought out of the operation theatre at 8 am. They have been kept in the ventilator and are stable now,” Dr Mohapatra told reporters in New Delhi.
He said the next stage of operation would be held a month or one and a half months later after checking the boys’ healing progress.
It may be mentioned that a team of 40 surgeons, including an expert from Japan, were engaged in the surgery.