India, Feb. 14 -- The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi may soon become the country's first government hospital to offer face transplantation procedures, with cadaveric workshops and advanced surgical training already underway at the hospital, doctors said.

Doctors also urged recipients to come forward for the surgery at AIIMS. "While doctors and surgeons at the hospital already perform face and neck surgeries in specific cases, more training is required for face transplants. We have already started training for the team of surgeons and cadaveric workshops have already begun. In the next six to nine months, we will be fully prepared to take up the surgery once any recipient is found. We are currently looking for such ...