The surgical team for the separation of Siamese twins led by Advisor at the Royal Court and Supervisor General of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) Dr. Abdullah Al Rabeeah started today the operation of separating the Tanzanian Siamese twins, Hassan and Hussein, at King Abdullah Specialist Children's Hospital in King Abdulaziz Medical City of Ministry of National Guard in Riyadh.

 The complex nine-stage surgery is expected to last 16 hours with a team of 35 surgeons, consultants, specialists, nursing, and technical personnel.

 This operation comes under the directives of the Saudi leadership, becoming the 59th of the Saudi program for separating conjoined twins. Since 1990, the program has supervised 133 cases from 24 countries. Riyadh - SPA