UK grabs praise for first hand transplant
Patient on receiving end of country’s first-ever hand transplant makes progress after eight-hour surgery.
Published On 5 Jan 2013
Doctors say the United Kingdom’s first hand transplant patient is making progress after an eight-hour operation.
Surgeons have removed Mark Cahill’s paralysed right hand and attached a new one from a donor.
Al Jazeera’s Laurence Lee reports from London.
Source: Al Jazeera