A team of doctors in Pune on Thursday performed India's first womb (uterus) transplant on a 21-year-old woman. The woman, who was born without a uterus, was fitted her mother's uterus so that she can attempt to conceive normally.
A team of 12 doctors headed by Dr Shailesh Puntambekar performed the highly complex surgery which lasted more than 9 hours at the Galaxy Care Laparoscopy Institute in the city.
The younger woman is now under observation and will be kept in the Intensive Care Unit for some days.
Dr Puntambekar said this was the first uterus transplant in India.