Villagers welcome Moni, Mukta at maternal home
Six-month-old twins Moni and Mukta, separated from a conjoined state through an operation at Bangladesh Shishu Hospital in the capital on February 8, give happy look at their maternal grandmother's house Ramroypur village in Parbatipur upazila of Dinajpur district yesterday. Photo: STAR
Moni and Mukta, the six-month-old conjoined twins who were separated after a successful operation at Bangladesh Shishu Hospital in the capital on February 8, reached their maternal grandfather's home at Ramroypur Chowdhury-Para village in Parbatipur upazila of Dinajpur Sunday. As they arrived at Ramroypur Chowdhurypara amid festivity of relatives in the morning, villagers thronged the clay-made house to have a glimpse of the twins. Earlier on Saturday morning, doctors released the two separated twins after a thorough check up and they along with their parents left Dhaka for Phulbari by a Dinajpur-bound coach on Saturday night. The twins are in good condition although they suffered a little coughing due to sudden cold, family members said. During a visit to their home at the remote village about 60km from Dinajpur town, this correspondent found that the twins were having nice time playing with relatives amid presence of a good number of people. Joyprokash Pal and Trishna Pal, parents of the separated twins, said they were worried thinking about whether they would be able to get them back to their village home. Expressing gratitude to the doctors who helped them get back their children in a good condition, they said villagers and relatives want to take them on lap, but they do not allow doing so because doctors forbade them doing so. "We passed the last six months amid worry thinking about the fate of the twins, Almighty God finally helped us," said Nioti Rani Pal, maternal grandmother of the separated twins. "It seemed a curse for us as they were born as conjoined twins in August last year. By the grace of God, they been separated," said maternal grandfather of the twins, Debendra Nath Poul, a retired primary school headmaster. Doctors at Dhaka Shishu Hospital on February 8 separated twin sisters Moni and Mukta, who had been conjoined at the lower part of their chests and abdomens, in the third such operation performed successfully in Bangladesh. A 10-member team of surgeons and anaesthetists led by Prof AR Khan, head of surgery of the hospital, conducted the operation and the hospital bore the total cost for the purpose.
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