The parents of the Siamese twins Veena and Vani informed the Government-run Niloufer Children’s Hospital in Hyderabad today their financial condition would not allow them to take the twins back home and look after their upbringing.

With the parents expressing their inability to look after them, it is now certain the twins will continue to stay in the hospital and be looked after by the hospital authorities.

The hospital, which has been taking care of them for the last few years, expressed its inability to continue looking after them and requested the Government to take their custody on Tuesday.

The hospital authorities also called the parents Mr Murali and Nagalakshmi and told them to take the undivided twins home and look after their upbringing as no operation would successfully separate them.

“We can’t take them back as our financial condition is poor. We will take them back and extend our services to them if the government is willing to extend financial help. We don’t mind if the operation is conducted under the Government supervision,” they told the hospital authorities in a written response.

Hospital in-charge superintendent Mr Ramesh Reddy told journalists that they would convey the feelings of the parents to the government. “We will act as per the instructions of the government,” he said.

The 7- year old undivided twins Veena and Vani were born sharing a single brain (cranjopagus in medical terminology) and a single blood vessel leading to the brain. “This is very complicated and an operation may turn highly risky to their lives,” said doctors. (JUBS)