Two sisters conjoined at birth have celebrated their 16 th birthday and are dreaming of going to Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Z...
Two sisters conjoined at birth have celebrated their 16th
birthday and are dreaming of going to Oxford and Cambridge Universities.
Zainab and Jannat Rahman were joined at the chest and
liver. Doctors had told their parents to consider aborting the conjoined twins,
giving them a one in a million chance of survival.
Their proud mother Nipa, 36, a nursery nurse, told the Daily
Mail: ‘Everything we went through before feels like a distant nightmare now. At
that time I never dared imagine this day. But to look at them now is amazing.
They have achieved so much already and against the worst odds imaginable.’
The girls were separated at six weeks old in a pioneering
four-and-a-half hour operation by a 20-strong surgical team at Great Ormond
Street Hospital. Today they are promising A* pupils at the top of their school
in east London, where they are both prefects.
Zainab hopes to go to Cambridge and become a paediatrician
at Great Ormond Street. Jannat, who is studying three languages, plans to go to
Oxford and hopes to become a lawyer. Their father Luther, 42, a business
development director, beams with pride at his daughters’ achievements and
ambitions, which he is certain they will achieve.
‘I am the luckiest father in the world. When I see these
two I feel that God gave me a gift. We are still cherishing it. Every day. They
have made us both very proud,’ he said.
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