Surgical teams split in two groups to operate individually on newly separated twins Trishna and Krishna of Bangladesh in the surgery at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne in this handout picture taken on November 17, 2009 and made available November 19, 2009. Twenty seven hours of surgery were required to separate the conjoined twins, who were joined at the head. Picture taken November 17, 2009. ©Reuters

BEIJING, Nov. 25 — Formerly conjoined twin sisters Trishna and Krishna are recovering well in Australia from a marathon separation surgery in Australia.

According to Australia’s Royal Children’s Hospital chief of surgery Leo Donnan Tuesday, Trishna has started to eat bread and fruit for the first time in her life — she previously got the nutrition from her sister.

“The exciting thing is they’re now starting to play,” Donnan told reporters, adding that he was amazed at the girls’ improvement.

The twins will turn three years old next month.

Previously Trishna and Krishna had been joined at the top of their heads and shared brain tissue and blood vessels. They were separated on Nov. 17 and left intensive care on Monday.

Their mother, Lovely Mollick, handed over the girls to an orphanage in the Bangladeshi capital in Dhaka, as she and her husband were unable to care for their special needs.

The girls were found by an aid worker in an orphanage when they were one month old. The aid worker contacted the Children First Foundation, which brought the girls to Australia for the operation.

The Children First Foundation has said it will support the twins when they undergo further medical treatment in Australia for at least the next two years. 

On Xinhua Web site: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/25/content_12536508.htm