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Separated conjoined twins to take 8-9 months to get discharged: AIIMS

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New Delhi, Dec 30 (IANS) Two months after conjoined twins from Odisha, Jaga and Kalia, were separated through a surgery at AIIMS, Director Randeep Guleria on Saturday said the twins will take another eight to nine months to get discharged as the vital reconstructive surgeries of their skull is yet to be done.

Guleria said that while the two had been separated, the grafting of skin on their skull has to be done, after which they would be under observation till their recovery.

“Discharging the two (Jagga and Kalia) may take eight to nine months, as now there has to be lots of reconstructive and re-plastic surgery for the skull of the two babies.

“Though the top of the brain has been separated, the top has to be re-grafted with skin, so that may take months. It’s a long-drawn process and depends on how things go on,” Guleria told IANS.

Noting that skin grafting was not an easy task, Guleria said usually the skin was taken from some other part of the body and used where it was needed.

Doctors at the hospital had successfully conducted 22-hour-long craniopagus surgery to separate Jagga and Kalia on Oct 25 and 26. The twins, whose cranium were fused, were brought to the AIIMS on July 14 from Milipada village in Odisha’s Kandhamal district.

The first phase of surgery, where experts from Japan were also present, was done on August 28. In it, a new bypass technique was used for the first time to separate the twins.

Elaborating the challenges during the surgery, Guleria had said: “There was a situation in which one of the kids did not have nerves and so this had to be created. Each of the twins also needed 20 units of blood.”

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Even though Karnataka recorded the lowest number of Covid deaths in April since the virus struck first in 2020, the state is recording a rise in the positivity rate (1.50 per cent). Five people died from the Covid infections in April as per the statistics released by the state health department. In March, the positivity rate stood around 0.53 per cent. In the first week of April it came down to 0.38 per cent, second week registered 0.56 per cent, third week it rose to 0.79 per cent and by end of April the Covid positivity rate touched 1.19 per cent.

on an average 500 persons used to succumb everyday in the peak of Covid infection, as per the data. Health experts said that the mutated Coronavirus is losing its fierce characteristics as vaccination, better treatment facilities and awareness among the people have contributed to the lesser number of Covid deaths.

During the 4th and 6th of April two deaths were reported in Bengaluru, one in Gadag district on April 8, two deaths were reported from Belagavi and Vijayapura on April 30. The first Covid case was reported in the state in March 2020 and three Covid deaths were recorded in the month. In the following month 21 people became victims to the deadly virus, and May 2020 recorded 22 deaths. The death toll recorded everyday after May crossed three digits. However, the third wave, which started in January 2

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