A pair of 13-month-old conjoined sisters, who were abandoned by their poverty-stricken parents, have been successfully separated.
Aradhana and Stuti were left at the Missionary Hospital in Padhar, India, after they were born on May 11 last year, because their parents could not afford to take care of them.
Their father Hariram Yadav is a poor local farmer who has just two acres of land.
The twins, who were joined at the chest, were separated yesterday during a 12-hour operation involving 23 doctors and 11 nurses from India and Australia.
They were wheeled in the operation room at 8am, before the surgery followed from 9am to 9pm.
The team first separated their hearts, which were joined by the same membrane, followed by their fused livers.
