Medical Science : Pathbreaking surgery on the anvil
Craniopagus twins, Sabah and Farah are on the threshold being operated upon by a 20 member team headed by Dr. Benjamin Carson of John Hopkins at Indraprastha Hospital in New Delhi. The Telegraph reports.. The BBC has an article on "Ethics of seperating twins"
- Dr. Benjamin Carson is a Black American devout Christian and has written a number of positive thinking books. 'Gifted Hands' and 'Think Big' are two of those. He has amassed a fortune in millions of dollars from his motivation lectures to Fortune 100 companies. His life story will soon be portayed on the silver screen, his role played by Don Cheadle.
Here is his biography at Academy of Achievement. In 1987, He successful lead a 70 member team to separate a pair of seven month old german male twins. The success story was repeated in 1997 when Dr. Carson and a 50 doctor team seperated a Zambian male twin pair. However, recently in 2003, an attempt to separate the 29 year old Laleh and Ladan Bijani twins from Iran was unsuccessful owing to massive hemorrhage. - Abu Dhabi's crown prince, Sheik Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan has offered to fund the surgery after hearing about the plight of the Muslim girls from an news article. He has already donated for the feasibility studies.
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