New Delhi, April 26 -- The Department of Plastic, Cosmetic and Hand Microsurgery at Private Hospital has successfully performed its second bilateral hand transplant on a young mother of two who had lost both her hands in a chaff-cutting machine accident. The complex 12-hour surgery marks another major milestone in advanced reconstructive microsurgery at the hospital.

The patient had been on the transplant waiting list following the accident that left her completely dependent on others for daily activities. A suitable donor was identified after the family of a brain-dead patient consented to donate the upper limbs, enabling the life-changing transplant.

The highly intricate procedure involved transplantation of both donor upper limbs, wi...