Global Hospitals receives license for hand transplantation

"We aim to deliver the best service to the society and the country, and maintain highest ethical standards, through our hand transplant centre," Satbhai said.

Last year ,Doctors at the Kochi-based Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre (AIMS) successfully conducted India’s first hand transplant. Since then PGIMER also made a move towards the milestone of hand transplants at the institute Across the world, around 110 cases of cadaver hand transplants have been registered  so far, with less than 3% rejections.

Hand transplantation is a surgical procedure to transplant a hand from one human to another. The "donor" hand usually comes from a brain-dead donor and is transplanted to a recipient who has lost one or both hands/arms. Most hand transplants to date have been performed on below elbow amputees, although above elbow transplants are gaining popularity. Hand transplants were the first of a new category of transplants where multiple organs are transplanted as a single functional unit, now termed "Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation" or VCA.

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