ITN Vol 14; Issue 43, 2014-2015

First Successful Hand Transplant in India

You have to hand it to Dr Subramania Iyer and team for achieving another first!

“…India's first hand transplant was carried out successfully at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, on 13th January 2015. More than 100 successful hand transplants have been done for several years (the first hand transplant was done in France). They have been considered to be more cost effective... So far, hand transplants and other composite tissue allotransplant including the face have been done only in USA, European countries, China and Australia…”