Five years since life changing surgery, formerly cojoined twins Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf continue to defy the odds.
In December 2009 twins Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf from Carrigtohill County Cork, were born cojoined from the chest to the pelvis. When they were four months old, a team spent 16 hours separating the babies in Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.
As the twins prepare to celebrate the fifth anniversary of their separation,
Hassan and Hussein are bright and bubbly and like most five-year-olds full of mischief.
The twins and their mother Angie Benhaffaf visit the School of the Divine Child at the Lavanagh Centre in Cork, distributing Easter eggs to the young children there.
It might be difficult to keep up with the twins, but Angie Benhaffaf is eternally grateful.
We could have lost both, or we could have lost one.
Despite the ongoing surgeries and physiotherapy.
We have them, they're alive and that's all that matters.
The twins' next milestone will be starting junior infants in the autumn.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 31 March 2015. The reporter is Paschal Sheehy.
