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Afghan army officer gets Indian hands

Xinhua, May 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

An Afghan army officer, who lost both his hands in a mine explosion in Kandahar three years back, has got two Indian hands transplanted, local media reported Sunday.

The successful surgery on 30-year-old Captain Abdul Rahim was conducted by a team of 20 surgeons at a super-specialty hospital in the southern Indian state of Kerala's city of Kochi recently.

The doctors transplanted the hands of a 54-year-old brain dead accident victim on the Afghan officer by connecting bones, arteries, veins and tendons.

"Rahim has regained considerable amount of function of both his hands using them for day-to-day activities," Dr Subramaniam Iyer, who led the surgery, was quoted as saying Saturday.

He added: "The patient will need intensive physiotherapy for another nine to 10 months, for which he will have to stay back in Kochi." Endi