World News for Students of English

09-02-2021 07:00

A 22-year-old man from New Jersey, US, has undergone the world’s first face and double hand transplant.

In 2018, Joe DiMeo was severely burned in a horrific car crash, suffering burns on over 80%    of his body. He had extensive injuries, including amputated fingertips, facial scarring, and no lips and eyelids. He was in a coma for three and a half months, and then he spent a month waking up and trying to exercise a little.

The reconstructive plastic surgery was carried out by a team of 140 staff at a hospital in New York, and it took 23 hours. It included transplanting both hands and the full face of a single donor simultaneously and it marked the first successful combination transplant case of its kind. After the surgery, DiMeo said that there were always a thousand ways to be sad about something, but there were always a million ways to be happy.

Difficult words: amputated (separated from the body), coma (a state when a person is alive but he looks like he is sleeping and he doesn’t respond to pain, light or sound), reconstructive plastic surgery (a surgery that is performed to reconstruct a part of the body or improve its appearance).

You can watch the video news lower on this page.