Siamese twins recovering

CLARENCE and Carl Aguirre, the two-year-old Filipino twins whose heads were surgically separated this month, are recovering at “lightning” speed.

The twins underwent a 17-hour procedure separating them on August 4. Carl, more subdued than his brother, still refuses to eat solid food, although officials at Montefiore Medical Centre in New York City said his spirits had improved.

Doctors are now considering moving the boys to separate rooms “to care for them better and to make sure no infections go back and forth”.