Okaz/Saudi Gazette
RIYADH — Nigerian conjoined twins — Hasna and Hasina — arrived at King Khalid Worldwide Airport in Riyadh on Monday Night time. Accompanied by their mother and father, the twins had been airlifted from Nigeria on board a medical evacuation airplane of the Ministry of Protection. This was in implementation of the directives of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman.
Upon their arrival, the twins had been transferred to King Abdullah Youngsters’s Specialist Hospital underneath the Ministry of Nationwide Guard to hold out the mandatory medical checkups and to look at the potential of conducting their profitable surgical separation.
Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, advisor on the Royal Court docket, common supervisor of the King Salman Humanitarian Help and Aid Heart (KSRelief) and head of the medical staff, expressed his honest thanks and gratitude to King Salman and the Crown Prince for his or her utmost keenness and help for the humanitarian work generally and the Saudi Program for the Separation of Conjoined Twins specifically. “This program embodies Saudi Arabia’s medical excellence within the surgical separation of conjoined twins, and this comes in keeping with the objectives of the Kingdom’s Imaginative and prescient 2030, to develop the well being sector within the Kingdom and place it on the forefront of nations on this planet,” he stated.
The KSRelief undertakes remedy of conjoined twins, inside the framework of the humanitarian function it performs in harnessing its efforts to handle and coordinate aid work and meet the bills of their surgical separation freed from cost.
In the meantime, the mother and father of the Nigerian twins expressed their honest thanks and gratitude to King Salman and the Crown Prince for the nice and cozy reception and hospitality accorded to them since their arrival within the Kingdom. They prayed to God Almighty to guard the Saudi management and bestow them with one of the best reward, and to protect and perpetuate the security and safety of Saudi Arabia.
It’s noteworthy that Saudi Arabia continues to stay on high of the nations on this planet within the variety of operations carried out to separate conjoined twins. Over the course of the previous 33 years, the Saudi Program for the Separation of Conjoined Twins was capable of observe up 133 circumstances of conjoined twins from 24 nations and has been profitable in conducting surgical separation of 59 conjoined twins, of which the final case was that of Tanzanian conjoined twins — Hassan and Hussein— who had been separated efficiently after a posh operation that took 16 hours over 9 levels on Oct. 5 this 12 months.