A Historic Surgery: Meet the Surgeon Behind India’s First Hand Transplant

Описание: Few tragedies can be as devastating for a person as losing both hands. A split second can leave you dependent on someone else for your entire life. In India, the only recourse to life without hands was prosthetics. But all that changed on 13th January, 2015. After a surgery that took over 16 hours, India’s 1st hand-transplant surgery was successfully carried out at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in Kochi. An Indian patient who had lost both his hands when he was pushed off a train for protecting a woman, received a double hand transplant that transformed his life. Today, we have with us the surgeon who pioneered the hand transplant surgery in India and paved the way for hand and limb transplantation in India.