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Will save people with Indian hands, says Afghan army man
Kabul, May 20
"Will continue to save lives of
people with my new Indian hands," said a former Afghan National Army
officer here on Wednesday, pepped with a pair of transplanted Indian
hands in place of his own which were lost in an explosion.
Abdul
Rahim, 30, lost his both hands in an explosion in Afghanistan when he
was trying to defuse a bomb. He returned to home country after receiving
transplanted hands at an Indian hospital.
He said on Wednesday
that as soon as he recovers, he will return to the Afghan military and
"will save lives of people with the pair of Indian hands", reports
Khaama press.
Rahim was assigned to a bomb disposal squad and his
deployment took him to restive Kandahar province, the birth place of
Taliban.
About three years ago Rahim was trying to defuse a
landmine planted by terrorists in Kandahar. As in the past, he was able
to save people, but the bomb went off just then and he lost both of his
hands in the blast.
He made several attempts for his treatment but in vain.
Then,
about four months ago he contacted the Amrita Institute of Medical
Sciences and Research Centre at Kochi city in the Indian state of
Kerala.
In a transplant surgery, Indian doctors equipped him with
new hands of a brain dead person, and he regained considerable degree
of function with them. Doctors now require him intensive physiotherapy
for ten months to gain full functional control over the new hands.