Surgeons behind separation of conjoined twins launch charity

Surgeons behind the separation of twin sisters who were joined at the skull have launched a charity to support similar operations. Safa and Marwa Ullah, who were also joined at the blood vessels in their heads, were treated at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital after being flown over from their birth-country Pakistan. The two-year-old sisters, whose father has died, were discharged on 1 July and moved to a London address with their mother, grandfather and uncle. Image: Professor Dunaway (left) and Dr Jeelani led the surgery. Pic: Gemini Untwined The children were craniopagus twins, meaning they were born joined at ...