Advisor at the Royal Court and Supervisor General of King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Rabeeah, during a lecture yesterday at the Children's University Hospital in Kraków, Poland, in the presence of over 500 doctors and researchers, reviewed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's experience spanning over three decades in surgeries of separating Siamese twins. He also noted that the journey of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in separating Siamese twins is full of successes and started in 1990, where the Saudi Program to Separate Siamese Twins, which is considered a unique scientific, medical and human model, managed to supervise more than 124 twins around the world and separated 52 twins from 23 countries from three continents with remarkable success, including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's initiative in 2005 to bring the Polish Siamese twin Daria and Oliga to perform a separation surgery that lasted for 18.5 hours. The supervisor general said that the program, under generous directives by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, is still going on with its unique medical and humanitarian initiatives that are considered an extension of voluntary humanitarian work of KSrelief. Dr. Al Rabeeah added that the program has brought hope to rare cases of Siamese children around the world who were deprived of running normal lives like their peers, referring to the distinguished capabilities enjoyed by the Saudi medical team supervising such cases, and praising the unlimited support of the wise leadership to the medical sector, which made the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia enjoy an advanced international status in pediatrics and separating Siamese twins.
