Doctors in South Africa
are currently soliciting for penis donations from men in order to be able to
carry out penis transplant on some awaiting patients in a hospital.
This is coming up days
after the country emerged the first in the world to carry out a successful
penis transplant on a 21-year-old man.
South African doctors say
that they are now able and ready to perform penis transplants in all of the
hospitals across their nation.
The country broke medical
records for the second time when a 21-year-old man recently got a new penis
after a nine-hour operation performed last December at Tygerberg Hospital in
Cape Town.
The first was Dr Christiaan
Barnard’s successful heart transplant in 1967.
Professor Frank Graewe,
one of the doctors who performed the procedure and head of the division of
plastic and reconstructive surgery at Stellenbosch University, said the
recipient of the penis transplant was one of several men on the waiting list, City Pressreports.
According to the doctors,
his penis was severed some three years ago after a botched attempt on circumcising
him during a traditional initiation ceremony.
Graewe disclosed that the
patient was doing just great to the point that he had sex five weeks after the
surgery and it turned out great.
He said, “It’s now three
months later and the patient is recovering very well. He had sex five weeks
after the operation.
“He gets good quality
erections, ejaculates and has frequent sex with his partner. He is in a steady
and healthy relationship.”
The experts revealed that
the penis was harvested in a two-hour procedure from a dead donor. The whole
penis was carefully dissected to keep blood vessels and nerves intact.
Graewe says the skin tone
of the donor penis is similar to that of the patient.
“It will never be 100%
similar, because even when the individuals have the same skin colour,
complexions differ.”
He says they will take
this aspect into account in future.
In the meantime, the
patient is currently on immune suppression medication to prevent his body from
rejecting the penis, adding that few other patients were already lined up for
subsequent transplants which will commence as soon as a donor is found.
“We wanted to first learn
from the first transplant and the patient. We wanted to allow enough time for
recovery. But he is recovering so well we can do the next transplant as soon as
we’ve found a suitable donor,” he said.
And qualified to donate
their penises are men who have finished having children but don’t have the
money to train them. Also men who have penises that they do not use because
they want to be treated like women. Age colour and size of the penis is of
little or no consequence.
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