The surgery to separate siamese twins Ezequiel and Samuel concluded at 2 a.m. this Saturday and the children are in critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit of the National Children’s Hospital in Costa Rica.

The complex procedure to separate the 2 year-old twins that were joined at the head began at 7:30 a.m. on Friday, February 23 with a team of 20 professionals in different areas. According to information by the Social Security Service the twins were finally separated at around 12:30 a.m. and the surgery finished at 2 a.m. Saturday after 18 hours of surgery.

Evelyn Badilla, the mother of the twins, thanked everyone for their support and prayers, “Knowing that they are now separated is the best news”, she stated.

The brothers conjoined by the head didn’t share brain or cerebellum but did share veins, arteries and corpus callosum is the part of the mind that allows communication between the two hemispheres of the brain; these characteristics made this one of the most complex surgeries done in the National Children’s Hospital.

All the risks of the operation were discussed with the parents prior to the surgery as well as the need to do it to offer them a chance of a normal life.

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