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Bangladeshi conjoined baby girls twins Rabia & Rukia

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July 24, 2017 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - Bangladeshi conjoined baby girls twins Rabia and Rukia admitted in Hospital at Dhaka on July 24, 2017.Delivered by caesarean at the PDC Clinic in Pabna, North Bangladesh, on July 16 at last year, conjoined twins Rabia and Rukia were born joined at the head. Mum Taslima Khatun Uno and husband Mohammed Rafiqul Islam didn’t learn that the twins were conjoined until after the birth. Doctors are monitoring the twin’s health in the coming weeks and assessing if and when surgical separation is possible and what the risks are to the babies lives. The parents, who are both teachers, worry they won’t be able to fund the surgery themselves and have made a plea to the Bangladeshi government to financially support the operations. Parents said: Surgery will be costly and it’s not possible for us to bear this cost so we are asking the government to help us. (Credit Image: © Mehedi Hasan/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)

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Daily Round Up 24 July 2017
July 24, 2017 - Dhaka, Bangladesh - Bangladeshi conjoined baby girls twins Rabia and Rukia admitted in Hospital at Dhaka on July 24, 2017.Delivered by caesarean at the PDC Clinic in Pabna, North Bangladesh, on July 16 at last year, conjoined twins Rabia and Rukia were born joined at the head. Mum Taslima Khatun Uno and husband Mohammed Rafiqul Islam didn’t learn that the twins were conjoined until after the birth. Doctors are monitoring the twin’s health in the coming weeks and assessing if and when surgical separation is possible and what the risks are to the babies lives. The parents, who are both teachers, worry they won’t be able to fund the surgery themselves and have made a plea to the Bangladeshi government to financially support the operations. Parents said: Surgery will be costly and it’s not possible for us to bear this cost so we are asking the government to help us. (Credit Image: © Mehedi Hasan/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press)