Manal and Mirhi were born in Pakistan with an extremely rare condition: they were \u201cjoined at the head,\u201d<\/p>\n
sharing \u201ca cranial bone and a complex vascular system.\u201d<\/p>\n
Such cases occur \u201capproximately once in every 60,000 newborns,\u201d and few survive long enough for surgery.<\/p>\n
When the sisters turned three, doctors and parents chose to proceed,<\/p>\n
knowing \u201cthe separation surgery could have ended very badly.\u201d<\/p>\n
The girls were transferred to Bilkent City Hospital in Ankara,<\/p>\n
where an international team prepared for months using \u201cthree-dimensional models of the twins\u2019 skull and brain.\u201d<\/p>\n
The operation was performed in stages, with the final procedure lasting \u201cmore than 14 hours.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite the risks, \u201cthe operation ended successfully,\u201d and the girls soon began breathing independently.<\/p>\n
Doctors say recovery is faster than expected and predict \u201ca full life.\u201d<\/p>\n
For their parents, the moment is priceless: \u201cfor the first time they can hold each daughter individually in their arms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Manal and Mirhi were born in Pakistan with an extremely rare condition: they were \u201cjoined at the head,\u201d sharing \u201ca cranial bone and a complex vascular system.\u201d Such cases occur \u201capproximately once in every 60,000 newborns,\u201d and few survive long enough for surgery. When the sisters turned three, doctors and parents chose to proceed, knowing…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}