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Indian conjoined twins find home
NEW DELHI, India -- A pair of conjoined twins has found a new home thanks to a charitable organization in Amritsar in India's Punjab state. The parents abandoned the two-month-old boys soon after their birth in a New Delhi hospital. They said they couldn't afford to look after them. The pair shares the same torso, which has just two legs. They have separate heads, chests, hearts, lungs and spinal cords. But several other organs, including the kidneys, are shared. Doctors say the shared organs make surgical separation impossible -- unlike the case of conjoined South Korean baby girls Ji Hye and Sa Rang who were separated in Singapore in July. The twins were lately discharged from the hospital and are reportedly in good health. The All India Pingalwara Charitable Trust serving as a foster family for the Indian twins has a team of five doctors and two nurses. "We will do whatever we can do for these twins," said chief of the trust, Dr. Inderjeet Kaur. "But if any other trust wants to adopt them and can take care of them, then we wish them good luck." The non-governmental charitable group says it will continue to care for the boys as long as required. Doctors say all they can do for the boys is hope that love and care may yet triumph over adversity. -- CNN Correspondent Ram Ramgopal contributed to this report.
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