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Earlier, Dean, Suleman Merchant had formed an ethical Earlier, Dean, Suleman Merchant had formed an ethicalcommittee to scrutinise the case and all the possibilities ofthe separation of the baby through surgical procedure. He saidthe hospital did not insist on the operation as they needed torespect the family’s decision. "When the mother is not ready for the operation, thecommittee has no role to play in this," Kothari said, addingthat if his team would have gone ahead with the surgery, onlyone child would have survived. "They have a complex anatomy which even we do notunderstand. If a separation surgery could have been conducted,we could have understood their internal organs clearly. Theirsurvival is now GodÂ’s wish," the paediatrician added.PTI APM DKSRY