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One of the recently separated conjoined twins with guardian Moira Kelly - Source: ONE News -
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Separated Bangladeshi twins Trishna and Krishna will remain in the care of the Children First Foundation in Melbourne for at least the next two years, the organisation's chief executive says.
The formerly conjoined twins were separated in a gruelling 32-hour operation at the Royal Children's Hospital earlier this week and are recovering in intensive care.
Children First Foundation chief executive Margaret Smith said the twins would need a large amount of support as they embarked on their individual journeys of recovery.
"They have got to be here for another couple of years, they are going to need a lot of additional help," she told AAP on Friday.
"They are here for the time being."
Smith said the girls' legal guardian, Children First Foundation founder Moira Kelly, considered herself the girls' mother.
But it was too early to say whether she would consider adopting the twins.
"I think she'd like to do that, but that's something we can't make a decision on at the moment," she said.
The foundation raised almost $250,000 to care for the twins, who were brought to Melbourne for treatment from an orphanage in Dhaka, Bangladesh two years ago.
A mystery benefactor had funded the hospital costs, Smith said.
The $250,000 was solely for the cost of caring for Trishna and Krishna in between numerous operations to separate blood vessels connecting their brains.
The final surgery earlier this week to separate the twins has so far been successful.
MRI scans on Wednesday revealed the girls' brains had not been damaged by the surgery.
Trishna awoke from her medically-induced sleep on Thursday and was talking and cuddling Kelly, while Krishna is still in the process of being brought out of her induced coma.
