A team of more than 50 professionals successfully performed a difficult surgery to separate two conjoined twins born in December 2024 in Burkina Faso and connected in the thoracic and abdominal areas. The operation, which lasted more than 12 hours, took place on June 6 at the Giannina Gaslini Institute in Genoa. The girls shared a portion of the liver and pericardium. On May 20, they arrived in Italy as part of a humanitarian program facilitated by the association Una Voce per Padre Pio. The initiative was co-financed by the Liguria Region and Patrons of the World's Children Hospitals, and carried out in collaboration with the Gaslini Institute, in accordance with national legislation that provides highly specialized care to foreign patients in particularly vulnerable conditions. "From the multidisciplinary study to the clinical simulations to the logistical planning, each phase has been thoroughly planned", noted Raffaele Spiazzi, Gaslini's medical director. “Our mission is to provide children with the best expertise in a setting designed for them. Interventions like this demonstrate how important the quality of our collaboration networks and team professionalism are".