The separated Siamese twins Jasmin and Nasmil Campusano Frías returned to DR last week after successful operation in the St. Joseph Hospital in New Jersey. The girls were born 25 May 1999 in San Cristóbal, joined at the abdomen and sharing a liver. The operation to separate them lasted five hours and cost US$1 million, cost which was assumed by the hospital. Bolivian doctor, Victor Valda, chief of Pediatrics of the hospital, carried out the operation. The St. Joseph connection was made through the Corazones Unidos program in the DR, and its Healing the Children connection in the US.
