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Dr. Shailesh Puntambekar - Medical Director of Galaxy Care Hospital

Dear Friends,

I welcome you to Galaxy Care Multispeciality Hospital, a premier Institute for Advanced Laparoscopy. Laparoscopy originated way back in the 1980’s and was mainly used as a diagnostic modality .It has, over a period of years, evolved into a primary modality for surgery. All the conventional open surgeries are now being performed by Laparoscopy /Key-hole surgeries. With the advancement in optics and energy sources, and with increasing abilities of surgeons, an increasing number of these surgeries are being performed and the feasibility has been proven in all tumors.

We, at Galaxy were one of the first to recognize the advantages of laparoscopy in Cancer surgery. Thus since 2003, we have performed all types of Cancer surgeries laparoscopically. The pioneering work has been in Oesophagical cancer & cervical cancers. In fact, the Lap Radical Hysterectomy for cancer cervix, goes by the name of our city and is known as the “PUNE TECHNIQUE”.

We have also started performing NOTES and single port su

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India's first womb transplant a success

Operation was conducted on a 21-year-old woman who was born without a uterus

The Indian surgical team were led by Dr Shailesh Puntambekar. PHOTO: Galaxy CARE Laparoscopy Institute

Doctors in Pune, India succesfully conducted the country's first womb transplant operation.

The operation was conducted on a 21-year-old woman who was born without a uterus. The donor was her 41-year-old mother.

"The first case always takes time and in the case of this 21-year-old girl who was born without a uterus, we had to recreate the blood supply before fitting the womb that was donated by her 41-year-old mother," Dr Shailesh Puntambekar, whose team performed the tricky operation, told the Indian Express.

The day-long procedure was extremely complicated. It took over four hours to retrieve the uterus from the mother. The mother had decided to donate her uterus as her daughter wasn't born with one. “What is the use of my uterus if it cannot help my daughter?” the mother had told the transplant team.

On the day of the operation, the ho

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