New Delhi, July 23: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences has constituted a committee to select a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) which is to be the home of the conjoint twins, currently being looked after by it. "There are three offers with AIIMS - one from Amritsar-based NGO and two NGOs are from Delhi. All three want to take care of twins for the rest of their lives," Dr D K Gupta, Additional Professor of Pediatric Surgery at AIIMS told a mews agency.

The medical superintendent has constituted a committee to look into the issue and the handing over of twins may take place in about a week, he said.

An AIIMS team may visit the NGOs concerned to know about the feasibility of their offer. Gupta said the institute was conducting investigations on the twins - Neelu and Pinku - to know the intricacies of the organ sharing between them.
Availability of this information was necessary for future purposes in case of any emergency, he said. Aiims would monitor the progress of the rare conjoint twins on a regular basis after handing them over to an NGO.

Ruling out any surgical separation of the twins, Gupta said that it was "unethical" as it would leave the twins with serious deformity.

The conjoined baby boys, joined at their lower abdomen, were abandoned by their delhi-based poor parents after birth. They were born at the Lady Hadinge Medical College and referred to AIIMS after six hours of birth. They have two heads, two upper chests, two hearts, four lungs, but common lower chest, and only two legs. Scanning revealed they have two complete spinal chords.
Bureau Report