Tag: Conjoined Twins

Bhubaneswar/New Delhi: The separated conjoined twins Jaga and Kalia, who underwent a rare cranial separation surgery at the Neurosciences Centre of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, will soon return to Odisha. Salini Pandit, Managing Director of the National Health Mission (NHM), today informed that AIIMS, New Delhi will soon issue an […]

Bhubaneswar/Dhenkanal: At a time when Odisha is set to welcome the separated conjoined twins Jaga and Kalia back home, another conjoined twins were born in the State today. The twin girls conjoined at chest to stomach were born to a woman from Khalapala village, at Dhenkanal district headquarters hospital. Though initially the health condition of […]

Cuttack: The authorities of Sishu Bhawan today constituted a seven-member doctors’ team for the treatment of the conjoined twin girls who were admitted to the hospital from Dhenkanal yesterday. Sishu Bhawan superintendent Saroj Satpathy informed that as the twin girls share a common heart, carrying out necessary treatment and surgery will be really challenging for […]

Cuttack: Just three days after their birth, the conjoined twin girls of Dhenkanal, breathed their last at Sishu Bhawan in Cuttack today. The girls, born on July 1 in Dhenkanal were conjoined at chest to stomach and shared several vital organs and were also suffering from respiratory problems. Soon after their birth, the girls were […]

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: Bhuyan Kanhar, the father of separated conjoined twins- Jaga and Kalia, on Tuesday alleged that the Odisha government is constantly delaying the shifting of his kids from New Delhi AIIMS to Bhubaneswar. Speaking to OTV, Kanhar stated that condition of both the twins is stable now, hence, they want to return to Odisha […]

Bhubaneswar: After months of confusion over transfer of separated conjoined twins- Jaga and Kalia to Odisha, the State government today clarified that the twins will be shifted to Cuttack SCB Medical College and Hospital, and not AIIMS Bhubaneswar. Informing about the development, Odisha health minister Naba Kishore Das stated that very soon both the separated […]

Bhubaneswar: For Jaga and Kalia- the twins who underwent a rare successful cranial separation surgery at the Neurosciences Centre of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi back in 2017, the wait is finally over as they boarded Bhubaneswar-bound Rajdhani Express after being discharged from the premier hospital today. Even their parents breathed […]

Cuttack: Odisha Panchayati Raj Minister Pratap Jena today informed that one of the separated conjoined twins of Kandhamal,Jaga will undergo skull transplant surgery before he can go to school. Visiting the special ward at the SCB Hospital in Cuttack to take stock of the health condition of Jaga and his twin brother Kalia, Jena said […]

Bhubaneswar: The health condition of one of the separated conjoined twins, Kalia is critical, informed Superintendent of the SCB Medical College and Hospital, Lucy Das. According to sources, Kalia has been kept on ventilator support for the last two days. A team of doctors are monitoring his health condition. Born to Bhuan Kanhar and Puspanjali […]

Phulbani: The last rites of Kalia, one of the separated conjoined twins from Odisha who died while undergoing treatment at the SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack last night, were performed at his native Milipada village under Phiringia block in Kandhamal district, on Thursday. Five-year-old Kalia’s cremation was solemnised as per the tribal rituals […]