Vietnam doctors separate conjoined twins in one hour   One of the girls is transferred to the Intensive Unit Care after they are successfully separated at the HCMC-based Pediatric Hospital I on February 27, 2014.Tuoi Tre A team of more than 10 doctors at the Pediatric Hospital I in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday successfully separated a conjoined female twins in one hour. Dr. Nguyen Duc Tuan at the hospital said the 4kg twins, who were joined from their breastbone to belly, were transferred to the operating room at 7:30am and were anesthetized.   The surgical team led by the hospital’s vice director Dao Trung Hieu started operating on the newborn twins at 10:30am and finished at 11:30am - five hours earlier than scheduled time.    According to Dr. Tuan, the separation was successful and both girls are now in stable health conditions. Dr. Tuan said the twins, hailing from the Mekong Delta province of An Giang in southern Vietnam, suffer from congenital heart defects. The first girl has only one kidney, narrow artery[ies], no anus, and has problems with cervical vertebra while the second has fluid in her right kidney. Earlier, last November, a surgical team of 70 doctors and health specialists at the Pediatrics Hospital II successfully separated 14-month-old twins Nguyen Hoang Phi Long and Nguyen Hoang Phi Phung during a 12 hour long surgery. The twins were born conjoined from their breastbone to their belly and shared a liver and a gall tract. Before the surgery, Long had been in good health while Phung had suffered many problems with his brain, aorta and kidney. However, Phung died three months after the surgery despite the doctors’ efforts to save him. Tuoitre