Additional skull reconstruction will be needed, doctors said. He used the Singaporean 3-D system to prepare for the successful 1997 separation of Zambian Siamese twins in South Africa. Jamuna and Ganga were born in a remote mountain village in Nepal. A Nepalese surgeon helped get them sent to Singapore, a wealthy Southeast Asian city-state known for its advanced medical facilities. Siamese twins joined at the head are very rare, occurring once in 2 million live births, according to Goh.
Successful separations are even more uncommon.
The hospital has waived many of their charges, and Singapore Airlines paid for the family's airfare from Nepal. Apart from brief breaks to pray at a Hindu temple, their parents, Sandhya, a kindergarten teacher, and Bushan, who helps his father with a small business, kept an almost constant vigil during the surgery. In Nepal, relatives had been waiting around their neighborhood's one phone for news. Now this is a miracle and we just can't describe how happy we all are to hear the news.