A hospital in Antalya province has performed the world's first triple limb transplant and Turkey's first face transplant after the family of a man who had been declared brain dead donated all of his organs.
After Ahmet Kaya, who was crushed under a train two weeks ago, was declared officially brain dead, his family made the decision to donate his organs. Teams from Akdeniz University's Faculty of Medicine took two arms, one leg and the face of the donor to Antalya to perform transplantation operations on two patients. Atilla Kavdır, a 34-year-old man, lost his arms and right leg when he was 11 years old after striking a power line with an iron rod in order to scare away pigeons outside his home. Ugur Acar, 19 years old, suffered serious burns to his face during a house fire that occurred when he was a baby.
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