Five surgeons, assisted by two nurses and six anaesthesiologists, carried out the successful, five-hour operation to separate the tiny identical twins at a hospital in Bern, Switzerland.
Maya and Lydia were born two months prematurely along with their triplet sister Kamilla in December.
They were initially stable and doctors at Inselspital hospital, Bern,
had planned to allow them to settle after birth and separate them after a
few months.
But after a week, their situation deteriorated
dramatically: one suffering from hypertension and the other suffering
from the opposite condition, known as hypotension.
Both conditions were life-threatening to the frail twins, who weighed
just 2.4 pounds each, and the doctors decided their only chance was
attempting surgery never before performed on such young infants.
Compiled by Wisdom Emenike
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