DMCH postpones surgery

Due to complications involving their reproductive organs, doctors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) have postponed the surgery to separate two-year-old conjoined twins Labiba and Lamisa.

"We will wait 6-8 weeks to start the surgery again. We plan to complete it on time," Prof Dr Asraf Ul Haque, head of paediatric surgery at DMCH who leads the 32-member surgery team, told The Daily Star.

Surgeons started the surgery at 8:00am and continued till 12:30pm, but stopped after a tissue expansion.

Hailing from Nilphamari, the conjoined twins were admitted to the hospital on September 28 last year. Since then, they have been preparing for surgery under the supervision of the pediatric surgery department.

The DMCH authorities have been providing almost all treatment and surgery costs for them. However, the twins still need more financial support to meet additional expenses, physicians said.

Earlier, doctors at DMCH successfully conducted surgery on two conjoined twins in 2017 and 2018.