Sri Lanka, July 9 -- A team of doctors from the Peradeniya Teaching Hospital, the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Children's Hospital, and the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Peradeniya successfully separated conjoined twins who were fused at the pelvis.

This marks the first time in the world that such a surgery took place, where one of the two kidneys belonging to only one child was removed and successfully transplanted into the other child, according to Mathula Hettiarachchi, Consultant Surgeon at the Peradeniya Sirimavo Bandaranaike Specialized Children's Hospital and Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya.

A team led by Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist Chaminda Kandauda delivered these conjoined...