Padhar Hospital

• Operation underway to separate Betul's conjoined twins; doctors say girls responding well

  There were prayers, chanting and for a short time, Padhar hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Betul district might have been mistaken to be a religious site. It wouldn't be misplaced. 11-month-old conjoined twins Aradhana and Stuti who have quite literally lived in the hospital, since birth will be operated upon in an attempt to separate them. And cheerin...

• Madhya Pradesh's Siamese twins to be separated tomorrow

  A day before Betul's twins are separated, their mother says she's waiting to take them home. Ironically, Aradhana and Stuti were abandoned and left in the hospital after they were born 11 months ago. But these Siamese twins could soon be heading home after their operation tomorrow.

• Look what you've done: Life-changing surgery for these twin girls

  They were born into a poor family in Betul in Madhya Pradesh. Their father, a farmer with barely two acres of land and their mother, abandoned them immediately in the hospital where they were born, unable to figure out how to treat their twin daughters, who were joined at the chest. The girls were named by the doctors who run the hospital in Betu...

• These conjoined twins need your help

  The joy of the new parents was short-lived, as they soon realized that they not only have got twins but that they are conjoined twins. The poverty stricken parents decided to hand them over to the Padhar hospital in Betul, Madhya Pradesh, expressing inability to bear the medical expenses of their daughters.