A pair of conjoined twins born sharing a liver have been successfully separated in southwest China after an eight-hour operation . The twin sisters were born on October 30 last year joined at the stomach , but doctors said the operation had been success in what was a first for the city of Kunming , the capital of China 's Yunnan Province . The girls ' father Chen Fubin said his daughters were sent to the capital 's hospital immediately after their birth in their hometown of Quijing City . Scroll down for video . The conjoined twins in China were born connected at the stomach and sharing a liver . Doctors separate the twin sisters during their surgery , which took about eight hours to complete . The twins were born on October 30 last year and were immediately taken to hospital . Here they are pictured prior to the surgery . Doctors pose for a photograph with the conjoined twins before operating to separate them . He said : 'We felt very sad when we saw them . We did n't expect them to be conjoined . We were worried about their health , ' China Central Television reported . Doctors said administering the anesthesia was particularly difficult given their light weight , but little blood was lost and the two were recovering well in an intensive care unit . Last week , two ten-month-old conjoined baby girls from Texas survived a world-first operation to separate them . Knatalye Hope and Adeline Faith Mata shared the same chest wall , lungs , pericardial sac ( the lining of the heart ) , diaphragm , liver , intestines , colon and pelvis . A team of more than 26 clinicians , including 12 surgeons , six anesthesiologists and eight surgical nurses at the Texas Children 's Hospital operated to separate the girls . The 26-hour surgery was the first time twins conjoined at the chest and abdomen in this way had been successfully separated . These ten-month-old twins from Houston , Texas ( pictured before the surgery ) , were connected at the chest and abdomen and shared several vital organs including the liver , lungs and intestines . Earlier this week it was also announced a pair of conjoined baby boys are expected to make a full recovery after being successfully separated in a nine-hour operation in Saudi Arabia . A team of surgeons led by the country 's former Health Minister Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah completed the difficult procedure in Riyadh . The twins , who were from the Republic of Yemen , were taken to Saudi Arabia to be operated on at the King Abdulaziz Medical City in the capital . During preliminary tests , the medical team discovered that the twins shared organs , including the intestines . The separation was the 35th performed on Siamese twins in the kingdom since 1990 on cases from more than 18 countries , including the Sudan , Yemen , Egypt , Malaysia , Philippines , Poland , Morocco and Iraq . Saudi Arabia has a team of top surgeons in the separation of conjoined twins - with 30 successful cases over the past two decades . Abdullah and Abdulrahman , pictured before surgery , were successfully separated earlier this week in a nine-hour operation in Saudi Arabia .
Conjoined baby girls were born sharing a liver in south west China . They were separated October 30 last year in an eight-hour operation in Kunming . The twins are now in good health and making a recovery in intensive care .