A 15-year-old Goregaon teenager becomes Asia's youngest hand transplant recipient and the world's first to undergo a shoulder-level limb transplant, thanks to a donation from the family of a brain-dead 9-year-old girl in Surat. A 15-year-old Goregaon teenager, who lost her right arm in an electrocution accident in Aligarh in 2022, has become the youngest hand transplant recipient in Asia and the first globally to undergo a shoulder-level limb transplant . Anamta Ahmad 's hand transplant, which took place a day after Ganpati visarjan on Sept 18, was possible due to a donation from the family of a 9-year-old girl declared brain-dead in a Surat hospital.
Ahmad was playing with her cousins on the terrace of her home in Aligarh during vacations when she accidentally touched an 11KV wire. The shock caused critical burns, damaging both her arms. Her right hand developed gangrene, leading to multiple amputations, while her left arm was also severely injured, leaving it with limited functionality.
The transplant was performed by plastic surgeon Dr Nilesh Satbhai at Gleneagles Hospital in Parel. "The youngest child to have previously undergone a hand transplant was 10-year-old Zion Harvey, who received a bilateral hand transplant in the US in 2017. However, those transplants were below the elbow.
Ahmad is the youngest recipient of a shoulder-level arm transplant in the world," he said. The 12-hour surgery was a success, and she is recovering well, he added. Shoulder-level transplants, .
