<p>Monika More, who underwent first bilateral hand transplant at a private hospital here, has been discharged from the facility, doctors said.</p>.<p>Following the 23-year-old woman's hand transplant surgery, the hospital has received nearly two dozen queries from other patients for a similar surgery.</p>.<p>More lost her hands in an accident at Ghatkopar railway station here in 2014 while trying to board a train. She was subsequently provided artificial limbs by doctors here.</p>.<p>Last month, a brain dead man's hands were airlifted from Chennai to Mumbai and transplanted on More.</p>.<p>After a nearly month-long stay at the hospital, she was discharged on Saturday.</p>.<p>"We are currently suppressing her immune system so that her body accepts the transplanted hands. She is under medical treatment and intense physiotherapy," a doctor from the hospital said.</p>.<p>"She is advised not to step out of her home except for routine visit to the hospital to avoid any chances of infection," he said.</p>.<p>More said it was her fathers dream to get her new hands.</p>.<p>"I waited for almost two years and finally came to know that a Chennai-based brain dead patients family was ready for hand donation. I got new hands on the night of August 28 but my father died before that," she said.</p>.<p>More thanked doctors at the hospital for providing her new hands as well as mental support to go through the extensive medical procedure. </p>
<p>Monika More, who underwent first bilateral hand transplant at a private hospital here, has been discharged from the facility, doctors said.</p>.<p>Following the 23-year-old woman's hand transplant surgery, the hospital has received nearly two dozen queries from other patients for a similar surgery.</p>.<p>More lost her hands in an accident at Ghatkopar railway station here in 2014 while trying to board a train. She was subsequently provided artificial limbs by doctors here.</p>.<p>Last month, a brain dead man's hands were airlifted from Chennai to Mumbai and transplanted on More.</p>.<p>After a nearly month-long stay at the hospital, she was discharged on Saturday.</p>.<p>"We are currently suppressing her immune system so that her body accepts the transplanted hands. She is under medical treatment and intense physiotherapy," a doctor from the hospital said.</p>.<p>"She is advised not to step out of her home except for routine visit to the hospital to avoid any chances of infection," he said.</p>.<p>More said it was her fathers dream to get her new hands.</p>.<p>"I waited for almost two years and finally came to know that a Chennai-based brain dead patients family was ready for hand donation. I got new hands on the night of August 28 but my father died before that," she said.</p>.<p>More thanked doctors at the hospital for providing her new hands as well as mental support to go through the extensive medical procedure. </p>