Rukaya, one of the members of the Bangladeshi twins, who were born conjoined at the head and separated in August 2019, underwent reconstructive surgery before Christmas, the Action For Defenseless People Foundation informed MTI on Thursday.
The operation was carried out in Bangladesh by doctors from Bangladesh and Hungary under the leadership of plastic surgeon Gergely Pataki.
According to the information, Rukaya and her sister Rabeya were already able to spend Christmas in their village. Rukaya will only go back to the hospital in January for suture removal.
The foundation said the twin girls were visited at the hospital by Bangladesh Foreign Minister Abdul Momen, who praised the cooperation.
They said that the fourth phase of Operation Freedom, a series of separation surgeries, is underway with rehabilitation and reconstructive surgeries for the girls, who are now six years old. Rabeya is intellectually at an age-appropriate level of development, living the daily life of her peers, and has started school, but her development in partial functions and her mobility is also important, while Rukaya needs development in all aspects due to her severely handicapped condition, which has been organized by the Foundation in Bangladesh since 2019.
The foundation’s Hungarian medical team was asked back in 2017 to separate Rabeya and Rukaya, who were then one and a half years old. The series of operations was performed in 2018 and 2019, in three installments.
Featured photo via the Action For Defenseless People Foundation
