Mumbai to get its first uterus transplant programme

The gynaecologist, who is the director of Pune’s Galaxy Care Multispeciality Hospital, is the country’s sole practitioner of this procedure, having conducted 11 successful uterus transplants so far. He is slated to perform two uterus transplants next month in Pune, one of them on a 29-year-old married woman from Mumbai. “The H N Reliance Hospital team too is preparing its list,” Dr Shailesh Puntambekar said. “If there is a patient, we will perform the first uterus transplant in Mumbai next month.”