Birendra Singh, 10, will be able to hold a pencil and pick up items for the first time in over three years after a “toe-to-hand” transplant at Safdarjung Hospital.
Birendra lost his fingers and thumbs after both his hands got amputated in April 2014 after an injury caused by an electric burn.
The toe-to-hand transplant surgery implants part of one foot — including the big toe — on to the hand, helping a person with amputated hands to get opposable thumbs.
Birendra had burnt his hands, arms, chest and abdomen when he held onto an immersion rod used to heat water.
Read more of this in a report by Annona Dutt published in Hindustan Times....
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