New Delhi: American neurosurgeon Benjamin Carson, who will operate on the conjoined twins Farah and Saba, says the operation will be complex but if everything goes according to the plan, both will survive.
Carson said that at each stage of the operation there is a 20 per cent chance of failure, but added that without the operation the twins will face a lifetime of difficulties.
The surgeon, from the Johns Hopkins Children's Centre in Baltimore(USA), will lead a medical team of 20 doctors at Indraprastha Apollo hospital to perform the first operation of its kind in India.
The US surgeon was flown in after Abu Dhabi's crown prince, Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, who read about the twins in a newspaper, agreed to pay for the operation.
The 10-year old girls conjoined at the head share a blood drainage vessel in the brain - a major concern for doctors and have never been able to sleep apart, sit upright or see each other face to face.
If the operation is successful they will be able to lead separate lives.
The biggest medical complication with the girls is that Farah has two kidneys and Saba none.
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