Ganga and Jamuna Shrestha were a pair of Nepali conjoined twins who underwent surgery in Singapore to separate them in 2001.
The Shrestha twins were born in the town of Khalanga in western Nepal, and named for India's sacred rivers. Their surgery took more than 100 hours, triple the previous record and was made possible by advanced computer imaging which had never been used before in Singapore.[1] Although both survived the surgery, believed to be only the second of its kind,[2] they had varying degrees of impairment, with Ganga having brain damage and Jamuna being unable to walk. Ganga subsequently died in 2008 of pneumonia and meningitis.[3]
In 2016, a book was published in Singapore about their lives.[4]
References
edit- ^ Aglionby, John; Boseley, Sarah (2001-04-10). "Nepalese babies survive 103-hour operation". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- ^ "Siamese twins separated". BBC. 2001-04-10. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- ^ "Jamuna in Singapore for surgery". The Himalayan Times. 2008-10-02. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
- ^ Lai, Linette (2016-04-04). "Ganga and Jamuna twins inspire a novel". The Straits Times. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
