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Missionaries of Charity sisters prayed continuously as conjoined Bangladeshi twins Krishna and Trishna underwent separation surgery at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, Australia.
“We prayed from 8am to 8pm,” Sr Grace from Missionaries of Charity in Bangladesh told the Daily Telegraph.
On Tuesday afternoon, the girls who were joined at the head were successfully separated after 32 hours of surgery. The 15 sisters who had a part in raising the girls continued to pray when they heard the news.
“I gave the announcement to all the sisters and we prayed,” Sr Grace recalled after receiving the good news over the phone from Melbourne charity Children First Foundation (CFF), which had organised the surgery to take place in Australia, the report says.
“For us the prayer is not just for the operation but for the life of the girls.”
The girls, who are 2 years and 11 months old, were the first conjoined twins at Mother Teresa’s Orphanage, which was opened in the capital Dhaka in 1976.
When Sydney woman Danielle Noblee first met the twins in January 2007 they were fragile and only a month old. She felt in her heart that something had to be done to save them. She took the first steps to get the girls to Melbourne a year later.
After raising money among Australian expats in Dhaka, she found Atom Rahman, an Australian-Bangladeshi who was a representative of the Children First Foundation and is now the girls’ co-guardian, along with CFF founder Moira Kelly.
The twins were given a 25 percent chance of coming through the operation unharmed, the Herald-Sun says.
The Herald Sun reports the first brain scans of Trishna and Krishna since they were separated have fuelled hopes the Bangladeshi orphans have come through their marathon operation in good health.
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