The two former Bangladeshi conjoined twins, Krishna and Trishna hope to celebrate their fourth birthday next month as separate beings as they were taken out on Monday from Intensive Care after they showed solid signs of recovery.

The two were taken out the ICU at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital, a week after the marathon surgery to separate them. On Monday, the hospital released a statement saying the girls had left the pediatric intensive care unit and were sharing a room together. They were in stable condition.

“The girls are getting to know the new staff who will be caring for them now that they have left intensive care,” the statement said. The news has thrilled their guardians and staff, hospital spokeswoman Julie Webber said. “Staff have been in the process of transferring them through the afternoon. They are being organised now. They are in one room, which they are sharing.”

“The girls received one-on-one care from a nurse in the intensive care unit but will now share a nurse, Webber said. “The ward is certainly less formal (than intensive care),” she said. The three-year-olds continue to recover well after their operation last week. Krishna took longer to recover from the surgery.

“They are doing well. They remain in intensive care,” Webber said on Monday. She said all the signs so far had been positive for the girls but they still needed more recovery.

A team of 16 doctors operated for 52 hours last Monday to divide the two who were joined at the head, brain and by blood vessels, in a procedure that took two years to plan.

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