"Will continue to save lives of people with my new Indian hands," said a former Afghan National Army officer here on Wednesday, pepped with a pair of transplanted Indian hands in place of his own which were lost in an explosion
He made several attempts for his treatment but in vain. Then, about four months ago he contacted the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre at Kochi city in the Indian state of Kerala. In a transplant surgery, Indian doctors equipped him with new hands of a brain dead person, and he regained considerable degree of function with them. Doctors now require him intensive physiotherapy for ten months to gain full functional control over the new hands.
