At 92, Mumbai's biggest civic hospital is all set to create a national record by becoming the first state government-run medical institution to perform a hand transplant on a patient. After a wait of two years, the hospital has finally registered a 25-year-old, who lost both hands to gangrene, for the surgery this month-end.

In 2016, the plastic surgery department of KEM Hospital was granted the certificate to carry out hand transplants. However, the hospital didn't get any recipients despite conducting several awareness programmes. Now, finally, a 25-year-old patient, who refused to reveal his name, is ready for it, becoming the first in India to undergo such a surgery in a civic hospital.