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AIIMS to decide future home for conjoined twins

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July 23, 2003 22:02 IST

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences has set up a committee to study the feasibility of the offer made by three Non Governmental Organisations to permanently take care of the rare conjoined twins.

"There are three offers with AIIMS, one from Amritsar-based NGO and two NGOs are from Delhi. All three want to take care of twins for the rest of their lives," Dr D K Gupta, additional professor of pediatric surgery at AIIMS, told PTI on Wednesday.

An AIIMS team may visit the NGOs to know about the feasibility of their offer.

The handing over of the twins -- Neelu and Rinku -- may take place in about a week, he said.

Gupta said AIIMS was trying to understand the intricacies of the organ sharing between the twins.

AIIMS will monitor the progress of the twins after handing them over to an NGO.

Ruling out any separation of the twins, Gupta said it was 'unethical' and would leave the twins with serious deformities.

The baby boys are joined at the lower abdomen. Their parents abandoned them after birth.

They have two heads, two upper chests, two hearts, four lungs, two complete spinal chords, but a common lower chest, and only two legs.

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