In 12-hours long surgery, surgeon at Amrita Hospital in Faridabad, successfully cut and implanted five organs from the 76-year-old deceased donor, offering a fresh expectation to five recipients.

Processes included a double-hand transplant, kidney transplant, corneal transplant and a lung transplant. This achievement further establishes doctors at Amrita Hospital to transplant the first double-hand in North India.

The expertise of the hospital in the upper limb transplantation is increasing rapidly, with five successful procedures on three patients in the last two and a half years. The same team started India’s first upper limb transplant program in Kochi, Kerala in 2015.

Transplantation was made possible by generous donations from the wife of an army officer, who died of intrachrinil bleeding. Many recipients benefited from their donations of kidney, cornea, liver and upper limbs.

The operation included four surgical teams and experts in nephrology, ophthalmology and important care coordination complex medical procedures.

The comprehensive evaluation confirmed the correct position of the donor’s organs, proving that age should not stop the organ donation. This success can encourage more elderly persons to consider organ donation.

Head of plastic and reconstruction surgery at Amrita Hospital. Mohit Sharma emphasized the complexity of hand transplantation, including several tissue types and required high levels of immunosuration.

He also highlighted the ability of the hospital to manage complex surgical challenges and the remarkable impact of benefiting five recipients from a donor.

“The fact is that five different recipients have benefited from the generous gift of a donor’s life, making the matter even more remarkable,” Dr. Mohit Sharma said.

A recipient, Twinkle Dogra, a 38 -year -old PhD scholar, who lost his limbs in an accident, expressed his gratitude. “I never thought that I would have a second lease of life, but this transplant has given me one,” Dogra said.