Bhubaneswar: Conjoined twins from Kandhamal – Jaga and Kalia – who were separated and undergoing treatment at All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi for the past two years following their surgery, will return to Odisha September 7. They will be admitted to the SCB Medical College and Hospital at Cuttack for further treatment.
Briefing reporters about this development here Health and Family Welfare Minister Naba Kishore Das said Thursday that the twins would be discharged from AIIMS September 6 and reach Cuttack by train the next day.
A team of four AIIMS doctors and some staff of Odisha Bhawan, New Delhi, will accompany the twins to Cuttack, he said, adding, they will be admitted to SCB Medical College and Hospital, Cuttack soon after their arrival.
Das said a six-member medical team under the chairmanship of the Neurosurgery department of SCB Medical College and Hospital – Sudhansu Mishra – has been formed to look after the twins.
SCB Medical College superintendent CBK Mohanty has been asked to take all necessary measures for the treatment of the twins.
The twins of Milipada village under Phiringia block in Kandhamal district were taken to AIIMS, New Delhi, in July 2017, where they were surgically separated by more than 20 doctors and were being treated there since then.
The state government decided to bring back the twins to Odisha as their parents expressed eagerness to return home to be with their relatives.
Initially, the state government decided to shift them to the AIIMS, Bhubaneswar, but the idea was dropped after the AIIMS-Bhubaneswar expressed some difficulties.
Ultimately, it was decided to shift the twins to the state-run SCB Medical College and Hospital at Cuttack.