'It has nothing to do with geography, religion or politics. It's based on science and humanity.'
For the last 30 years, Dr. Abdullah al-Rabeeah, a pediatric surgeon and adviser to the Saudi Royal Court, has spearheaded a program that separates conjoined twins who were born to poorer families from around the world.
"We pay for the travel and expenses," al-Rabeeah told ABC News about the patients who have come from 21 countries."It has nothing to do with geography, religion or politics. It's based on science and humanity." While many scientific journals have not reported on the program, al-Rabeeah says his program has separated nearly one hundred patients, with ninety still living as of 2019.Conjoined twins are rare. According to researchers from the University of Minnesota, the phenomenon is only found in about 1 in 200,000 births. Occurrences are higher in Southeast Asia and Africa, where the rate is 1 in 25,000, because of an increased rate of identical twins.
Separation surgery methods depend on each patient."Separating the organs that they've shared requires usually a specialist in whatever area you're talking about," Tepper said."If they share a brain, you're going to need a neurosurgeon involved. If they share a heart, lung, it's going to be a cardiac or thoracic surgeon."The twins' family knew before their birth that the brothers would be conjoined.
Al-Rabeeah said their father wrote to him saying, he had a set of twins and he was searching for any country to help them. "That took about an hour and a half," al-Rabeeah said,"then we separated the bowel to give each one of them an appropriate amount based on their blood supply to ensure that they can survive."
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