First penis transplant recipient's girlfriend is pregnant

The news was welcomed by the doctors who performed the surgery

The South African recipient of the world’s first penile transplant, now 21 years of age, is to become a father. His girlfriend is four months’ pregnant proving the success of the operation that restored his penis in December following a botched circumcision.

The operation, that used a donated penis, ran for nine hours at Tygerberg Hospital. He had been left with just 1 cm of his original penis as a result of the circumcision.