Two conjoined 1-year-old twin boys who underwent successful surgery to separate them in Jordan earlier this year have finally returned home to Yemen.

The twins, Ahmed and Mohamed, were born at the Al-Sabeen Children's Hospital in Sanaa, Yemen, on Dec. 16, 2020. They underwent successful separation surgery at the Specialty Hospital in the Amman, Jordan, in July.

UNICEF supported both their medical evacuation and surgery. The organization reported on Dec. 20 that the youngsters returned home on a United Nations medical flight to the Yemeni capital.

The conjoined twins were joined at the abdomen and chest, and the operation to separate them lasted nearly eight hours and involved 25 surgeons and other medical staff. The boys were aged just seven months at the time.

Conjoined twins occur once every 200,000 live births, according to the University of Minnesota. The majority, 70 percent, are female.

The twins' father, Yasser Albukhaity, was quoted by the UN agency as saying: "I can't express my feelings. There was a feeling of fear at the beginning, but we had great faith in Allah and in the medical team.

Amman, Jordan
Dec. 20, 2021
Source: UNICEF

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