Parents of Siamese twins in despair
The doctors at the Hyderabad-based Niloufer Hospital informed the parents M Murali and Nagalakshmi about the decision by a group of doctors at All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi to go against with proposed surgery intra-arterial digital subtraction angiography) to separate them.
Warangal: A decade of waiting to see their children live a normal life coming to a poignant end, the parents of Siamese twins (conjoined twins) Veena and Vani are now worried on how to take care of them.
The doctors at the Hyderabad-based Niloufer Hospital informed the parents M Murali and Nagalakshmi about the decision by a group of doctors at All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi to go against with proposed surgery intra-arterial digital subtraction angiography) to separate them.
For the past 12 years, Veena and Vani have been inseparable as their skull portion remained fused together from the time of their birth on October 16, 2003 and have been living at Niloufer Hospital waiting for their surgery.
Since many years, team of doctors from London and AIIMS have conducted tests and studies on how to separate them.
Now the doctors said they arrived at a conclusion that conducting surgery will throw the lives of the girls into a danger. There is very little chance of survival after surgery and they asked our opinion whether to go ahead with it or not’ Murali told The Hans India on Thursday.
If the lives of the kids are in danger, how could they agree for a surgery he posed gloomily adding “Whatever be their condition, it is better to allow them to live as are they are right now” The same is the opinion of the kids mother, Nagalakshmi.
However, the problem that the parents who live in Beershettyudem village of Narsimhulupet mandal in Warangal district face now is how to look after the twins in terms of finances and medical assistance required for them which they cannot afford.
Murali said that he and his wife both have to work to earn money to run the family. My wife works as a daily wage labourer and I ride an auto rickshaw, if we both go out, would be none to care for the kids at home.
In addition to that, we have two more daughters to care for. It would be better if the government extends financial help or provides a job to me. If it is possible to lodge the kids at any children’s home in Hyderabad, it would be alright, he added.
