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Story published on August 7, 2008
A four month old baby has died moments after a marathon operation to separate her from her twin sister.
The twins from Bangladesh underwent complicated surgery by a team of more than 50 doctors and nurses in an effort to give them both normal lives. Barsha and Banya were joined at the chest and stomach, the operation lasted seven hours but Barsha wasn’t strong enough to survive.
“In these cases one of the twins is always stronger than the other and in this case Barsha was not the strong one and has died,” reported paediatric surgeon Shafiqul Haq.
“The condition of the other twin is good. She has a little bit of fever. It is too early to determine whether the surviving twin is risk-free.”
Bangladesh has a bad record for separating conjoined twins, in the past four years there have been three previous attempts to separate conjoined twins and all but one child has died.
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