The transplant was done on a 19-year-old girl at the Amrita Hospital where India’s first hand transplant was done in 2015. Since then the hospital in Kerala has performed four hand transplants. So far only nine upper arm transplants have been done across the world, according to doctors at the Amrita Hospital. When my mother told me that hand transplants are now being done in India, I got great strength and hope, and my disability began to look temporary. “Rehabilitation is difficult in such cases because the patient bears the weight of the transplanted hands at the upper arm.

Source: Hindustan Times September 28, 2017 04:07 UTC