SA Performs World’s First Penis Transplant

South African doctors announced they had performed the world’s first successful penis transplant, three months after the ground-breaking operation.
The 21-year-old patient had his penis amputated three years ago after a botched circumcision at a traditional initiation ceremony. In a nine-hour operation at the Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, he received his new penis from a deceased donor, whose family were praised by doctors. “We’ve proved that it can be done – we can give someone an organ that is just as good as the one that he had,” said Professor Frank Graewe, head of plastic reconstructive surgery at Stellenbosch University.
“It was a privilege to be part of this first successful penis transplant in the world.” Doctors say the man, whose identity has not been disclosed, has made a full recovery since the operation on December 11 and had regained all his urinary and reproductive functions.
Professor Andre van der Merwe, head of Stellenbosch University’s urology department and leader of the South African surgical team said: “We are very surprised by his rapid recovery.” Circumcisions are performed on boys and young men as a rite of passage to adulthood in some rural parts of South Africa. Stellenbosch University said experts had estimated that there could be as many as 250 penis amputations a year in the country because of botched circumcisions.
The university said it was planning for nine more patients to receive penis transplants. In 2006, a Chinese man had a penis transplant but his doctors removed the organ after two weeks due to “a severe psychological problem of the recipient and his wife.”

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8 Responses to SA Performs World’s First Penis Transplant

kapokoso

March 16, 2015 at 11:50 am

the test will be different as compared to the original penis.
vampiro

March 16, 2015 at 11:54 am

Well
- katyetye
  
  March 16, 2015 at 10:07 pm
  
  Mwaufwile kuli ine after namichinkula ko batumfweko, te?
Judge Joe Bidden

March 16, 2015 at 12:20 pm

Yeah main issue is psychological, its good to meet a new girlfriend who got no clue the d!ck is from a dead person, a wife its hard as she might oppose a dead man’s d!ck to enter her.
New Educated Zambia

March 16, 2015 at 4:30 pm

Is this what the PF president went for? Surgical procedure kiki. Ok before you start getting all emotional that was a joke. Mondays are stressful days and it is healthy to crack a few jokes to get the week started
- New Educated Zambia
  
  March 16, 2015 at 6:13 pm
  
  Cont’D.. I forgot that Bana HH (Muntinta) also needs vagina transplant as it has become completely inoperable due to cervical cancer hence Indian doctors in Guwahati suggested that they can get a vagina from a Zebra which is almost equivalent to to the human female ntwenu….
  - New Educated Zambia
    
    March 16, 2015 at 7:39 pm
    
    kiki pathako pinu engage us in constructive debate mune. You are now painting the entire tumfweko with UPND symbol which is good advertising. Keep up the good work.
Metal

March 16, 2015 at 9:00 pm

Judge Joe Bidden boyi you are right