He has agreed to separate the twins from Andhra Pradesh who were born in 2003

and have a rare condition known as craniopagus, in which sufferers are fused with their twin at the skull.

Dr Goh has operated on other conjoined twins including patients from Nepal and Iran. He and his team will perform the cranial separation surgery for Vani and Veena along with Indian neurosurgeons in Singapore in August.

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