Bengaluru, City based Milann, country's leading fertility centre has received the approval for Uterus Transplant from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

Milann has been given approval to conduct uterus transplant on two female patients and the procedure will be undertaken as a research project as per the ICMR guidelines. This would be the first case of uterus transplantation in the country.

ICMR has set up a committee that supervises human organ transplantation rules in India.As per the committee's directive, a research protocol, consent forms, ethical reviews from two separate registered ethics committees were obtained by Milann, further to which the hospital was granted permission from ICMR to conduct the trans...