Twins stable, adjusting well

Conjoined twins were separated a week ago

Conjoined twins were separated a week ago

Trishna and Krishna, the conjoined Bangladeshi twins who were separated in a path breaking surgery last week, left intensive care yesterday and were adjusting well, according to officials in the Melbourne hospital.

According to a hospital press release, the girls had left the paediatric intensive care unit and were sharing a room together. They were said to be in stable condition.

The twins, who turn 3 next month, had been joined at the top of their heads and shared brain tissue and blood vessels.

They were separated last Tuesday after 25 hours of delicate surgery in Melbourne's Royal Children's Hospital and then underwent an additional six hours of reconstructive work.

"The girls are getting to know the new staff who will be caring for them now that they have left intensive care," the release said.

Where's My Sis? Guardian Moira Kelly with Daniella Noble, the woman who found the twins at a Dhaka orphanage in 2007, watch over twin Trishna.

Krishna is expected to have a longer period of adjustment as the separation brought more changes to her body and brain's blood circulation.

According to AAP, an aid worker first saw Trishna and Krishna in a Dhaka orphanage when they were a month old, and contacted the Children First Foundation, which brought the girls to Australia for the operation.

The twins' distraught mother in Bangladesh said yesterday she was devastated at being so far away from
her daughters.

She explained the only reason she left them at the orphanage was because she and her husband could not afford to do for them what their foster mother has done in Australia. She said she hoped and fervently prayed that she may, one day, see them again.

u00a0Krishna's and Trishna's father is a textile mill worker.