As I am still travelling in Australia, I have little time to post, but I could not help noticing a good news story. The View From Fes will be back at full speed by Friday and report on our recent travels - in the meantime.... A Saudi medical team successfully separated Moroccan conjoined twins in a surgical operation that lasted more than 15 hours, the head of the team announced on Sunday.
The nine-and-a-half-month-old twin girls, Hafsa and Elham, were joined at the spine and shared a vagina.
Surgeons created two vaginas during the surgery.
"The success of the operation is a message from the (Saudi) kingdom to the whole world that it is a humanitarian kingdom," chief surgeon Dr Abdullah al-Rebia said at a press conference.
Saudi King Abdullah paid the expenses of the surgery, which was the 11th of its kind to be carried out at the King Abdul-Aziz Medical City for the National Guard in the Saudi capital.
Tags: Morocco Fes, Maghreb news
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