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Betul was a nondescript town in Madhya Pradesh in India while I had been a student at the University of Saugor India . Rich in resources, it remained backward in all respects. Betul had nothing of significance and showed a disinclination for any kind of development.
Newspaper reports from Betul on 21st June 2012 places the town on a higher plateau.
“Conjoined twins Stuti and Aradhana were successfully separated after a 12-hour complex surgery conducted by a team of 34 medical experts, including 23 doctors, drawn from India and abroad. The complicated surgical procedure was carried out at Missionary hospital in Padhar, Betul. “
The sisters were born on May 2, 2011 to Maya Yadav, a resident of Chudiya village under Chicholi block of Betul district. Since the woman and her husband, a poor farmer, were unable to bear the huge expenses required for the delicate surgery, they had donated them to the hospital. The hospital management readily accepted them and decided to go for surgery to separate the conjoined twins who were joined at heart and liver.
In a four phase operation, the twins were first given anaesthesia. After nearly two hours, a team of surgeons separated their heart that was again transplanted into them in two pieces.
The surgeons separated their livers through a critical surgery during the third phase. In the last phase their other body parts were separated and sealed as required under such surgeries. Stuti was finally separated from Aradhana and was kept in the ICU while Aradhana remained inside the operation theatre. The twins are kept on ventilators and will be under close medical observation for 48 hours.
We have to be proud of the team of doctors who had strived for twelve hours to achieve the impossible. We can take pride in the fact that this has happened in one of the most backward regions in India . Betul is undoubtedly the symbol of rising India .
(Based on report in The Hindu of June 21, 2012 published from Thiruvananthapuram)
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