Parents enjoy first cuddles with ‘little fighters’ as twins leave intensive care

MIRACLE twins Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf have left intensive care and have been cuddled by their parents for the first time since their separation operation.

The five-month-olds, from Carrigtwohill in east Cork, who were born last December joined at the chest, were also placed in the same cot together for the first time since the 14-hour separation procedure was performed at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) last month.

In a medical update issued by GOSH yesterday, a spokesperson said the boys are being cared for in a surgical ward, are breathing unaided and are being bottle fed.