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Separated twin girls discharged from city hospital

The conjoined twin girls who had separation surgery last month were discharged from Shanghai Children’s Hospital today on their first birthday, marking a new beginning in their lives.

Zheng Hanjing and Zheng Hanwei were connected from the lower chest to the upper belly, sharing one liver and part of the heart-sac. They now have their own heart and liver.

Doctors separated them on July 16 and “the girls recovered very well,” said Dr Chen Qimin, their chief surgeon. “They will grow up like healthy children.”

Since both girls have congenital curvature of the spine, doctors said they would monitor their growth and offer support in the future.

Their parents abandoned them at birth and they were adopted by a children’s home in Pingdingshan, Henan Province.

The children’s home sent the girls to the Beijing-based Angel Home charity organization in August 2013 for better medical care. Hanjing and Hanwei will return there for further care before they return to Pingdingshan, hospital officials said.

Doctors said in terms of development, the girls are behind children the same age but that they will catch up quickly now that they have been separated.


 

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