<div align="justify">In a major medical feat in India, doctors and surgeons at a private hospital in Pune successfully performed country's first womb or uterus transplant on a woman. <br /><br />The surgery was performed at Pune's Galaxy Care Laparoscopy Institute (GCLI), that has been granted a licence by the state's Directorate of Health Services to carry out the uterus transplant.<br /><br />The surgery started at 12.30 PM and ended at 21.00 PM on Friday. The recepient was a 21-year-old woman from Solapur who was suffering from congenital absence of uterus since birth. The donor is her 45-year-old mother.<br /><br /> The recipient woman would be able to menstruate normally and be able to conceive. The uterus of the donor mother was removed via a laparoscopic surgery. The subsequent transplant was done through a open surgery. She would be under observation of doctors for some time. <br /><br />"The surgery has been successful," said oncosurgeon Shailesh Puntambekar who performed the surgery along with team of 11 other doctors, on Friday, briefing about the nine-hour-long surgery. Dr Sanjeev Jadhav, who has done heart, lung and kidney transplants, assisted Puntambekar.<br /><br />In 2013, the world's first uterus transplant was done in Sweden - where 36-year-old mother, who was born without a uterus, received a donated womb from a friend in her 60s. The recepient had been able to conceive and had given birth to a baby boy. Nearly two dozen such surgeries have been performed around the world so far.</div>
<div align="justify">In a major medical feat in India, doctors and surgeons at a private hospital in Pune successfully performed country's first womb or uterus transplant on a woman. <br /><br />The surgery was performed at Pune's Galaxy Care Laparoscopy Institute (GCLI), that has been granted a licence by the state's Directorate of Health Services to carry out the uterus transplant.<br /><br />The surgery started at 12.30 PM and ended at 21.00 PM on Friday. The recepient was a 21-year-old woman from Solapur who was suffering from congenital absence of uterus since birth. The donor is her 45-year-old mother.<br /><br /> The recipient woman would be able to menstruate normally and be able to conceive. The uterus of the donor mother was removed via a laparoscopic surgery. The subsequent transplant was done through a open surgery. She would be under observation of doctors for some time. <br /><br />"The surgery has been successful," said oncosurgeon Shailesh Puntambekar who performed the surgery along with team of 11 other doctors, on Friday, briefing about the nine-hour-long surgery. Dr Sanjeev Jadhav, who has done heart, lung and kidney transplants, assisted Puntambekar.<br /><br />In 2013, the world's first uterus transplant was done in Sweden - where 36-year-old mother, who was born without a uterus, received a donated womb from a friend in her 60s. The recepient had been able to conceive and had given birth to a baby boy. Nearly two dozen such surgeries have been performed around the world so far.</div>
