Joyous News
Doctors give patient a new head
We are not referring to Frankenstein. This is a real case, and the patient is hale and hearty.
Doctors in South Africa have created medical history. In a first of it’s kind, doctors there have transplanted a complete head on a patient.
The patient was suffereing from bone cancer, and as per existing medical practices, there was nothing the doctors could do for him.
Professor Myron Danus of Charlotte Maxexe Johannesburg Academic Hospital in South Africa conducted this audacious surgery in February of this year. However, they waited till the patient recovered before anouncing this amazing procedure.
This surgery offers good news for the countless cancer patients across the world, whom this proceducre can benefit.