Two formerly conjoined Bhutanese twin girls arrive home after being separated in an operation in Australia.
Conjoined Bhutanese twin sisters Nima and Dawa sit with their mother Bhumchu Zangmo and father Sonam Tshering at the Tachog Lhakhang Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Thimphu, Bhutan, Thursday, March 7, 2019. Twenty-months-olds Nima and Dawa flew from Melbourne with their mother Thursday, months after a surgical separation. The girls had been joined at the torso and shared a liver. They were separated in a procedure at Melbourne’s Royal Children's Hospital early November.
Twenty-month-old Nima and Dawa returned to Bhutan after a 22-hour flight from Melbourne with their mother, four months after their operation. The girls had been joined at the torso and shared a liver. The girls were separated by a team of 25 surgeons, nurses and anesthetists in an operation in early November at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital that lasted almost six hours.
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