Shanghai Daily news

Conjoined girls marked their 100-day anniversary yesterday with good news that Fudan University's Children Hospital may invite foreign medical experts to study their case and take part in their separation surgery.
However, parental approval is normally required for surgery. The twins' family abandoned them and hasn't shown up for three months.
Surgery cannot be performed for at least six months. If the parents have not shown up by then, the children would become wards of the Shanghai government, which would decide about the surgery.
Shanghai Daily contacted the mother, Chen Yanfen, by telephone in Zhejiang Province yesterday. She said she would welcome the surgery and missed her babies, but needed to consult her husband, a carpenter at a furniture factory. She cited community "pressure" about having such children.
One could die
In a complicated case such as this, it is possible that one baby could die in the surgery; without surgery, however, both could die.
The local hospital established an agreement yesterday with the US-based Johns Hopkins Medicine International to cooperate with Johns Hopkins Children's Center, one of the world's top pediatric facilities.
It is the first time that Johns Hopkins has cooperated with a Chinese pediatric hospital.
The US hospital will send experts to give lectures and guidance in the city, while local doctors and nurses will go to the United States for training at Johns Hopkins.
"Johns Hopkins Children's Center is very strong on pediatric surgery, tumor treatment, organ transplant, children's mental therapy and kidney diseases," said Gui Yonghao, president of the Fudan University Children's Hospital.
"Cooperation allows us to quickly learn the most advanced technology and medical concepts."
Stable condition
He said the agreement permits foreign experts to perform complicated surgery together with local surgeons. The first case might be the conjoined twins.
"The babies are in stable condition and the best time for a separation surgery is after six months," Gui said. "We will try our best to provide them with good care and treatment and hope the parents contact us."
The twins were born to a Zhejiang Province couple on August 24 at a local hospital and immediately transferred to Fudan University Children's Hospital. They share a liver,  spleen, gall bladder and digestive system, and both have congenital heart problems.
Representatives from Johns Hopkins said it has experience in such cases and said US experts might participate in the complicated separation surgery.