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AIIMS New Delhi, Separate Unity of Medical Surgical Broad traffic The Unmuted Revolution was initiated in February 2026. Patients with devastating deformities of the face (acid attacks, severe burns, road accidents or gunshot wounds), have spent years undergoing multiple surgeries (possibly 10 12) with seemingly little success. They not only had to suffer the physical pain but endure social isolation, stigma, and deprivation of most of their basic functions such as breathing using nose, clenching eye lids, food consumption, and vocalization.

Join Department of plastic, reconstructive surgery and burns surgery at the AIIMS Delhi. The team with Dr. Maneesh Singhal in the lead declared the first official face transplant programme in India- the first in a country. They were no longer experimental and made it the need of the hour. The historic project is to conduct the first full face transplant in the country in a period of one year subject to regulation and supply of donors.

It launched with a cadaveric workshop and a two-week training, February 11–15, 2026, involving classes with international nurses to learn the complicated 1416 hour surgery.February 11–15, 2026, involving classes with international nurses to learn the complicated 1416 hour surgery. It entails using a brain-dead person as a donor in harvesting skin, blood vessels, nerves, muscles, and in some cases bone and carefully rejoining all that under a microscope to the recipient. The patients need to take suppressive medicines throughout their lives to avoid being rejected after surgery.

To survivors such as arrived acid attack victims or people with visible deformities, it is not just about aesthetics but the restoration of dignity and independence, as well as, the possibility to smile, blink or chew something without a effort. AIIMS has started enrolling appropriate patients who have depleted all possible avenues and it has developed a dedicated registry to ethically and timely match the donors.

It was a hopeful statement offered by Dr. Singhal: it is necessary to create this aptitude in AIIMS and offer holistic functional and aesthetic rehabilitation to patients, whose choices are very limited at the moment. The team drilled so hard, training on what has not been accomplished by less than 50 centres the world over.

By taking this groundbreaking position, AIIMS Delhi will be included in a small group of hospitals around the world, and thousands of people in India will have a new chance to be hopeful. To the old policymakers who once concealed their faces, now it is a promise of a new one, at least. This will not only be medical innovation but it will be one step towards life restoration, one transplant at a time.