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Saudi medical team undertakes complex surgery to separate Tanzanian conjoined twins

RIYADH: A Saudi medical team began surgery on Thursday to separate Tanzanian conjoined twins Laitience and Loveness, aged 2 years and 2 months, at King Abdullah Specialist Children’s Hospital in King Abdulaziz Medical City. The operation is part of the Saudi Conjoined Twins Program, led by Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, supervisor general of the Saudi aid agency KSrelief and head of the program’s medical and surgical team. Al-Rabeeah said the twins arrived in Saudi Arabia on Jan. 27. Following their a