Man recovering after world’s first life-saving face transplant

A Pole whose doctors claim has received the world’s first life-saving face transplant appeared in public for the first time as physicians said he was ready to go home.

Identified only as Grzegorz, the 33-year-old man wore dark sunglasses and walked with ease, but was unable to make himself understood when speaking to reporters at a hospital in Gliwice, southern Poland.

The man, an employee at a stonemason’s workshop, was severely maimed on April 23, when a machine used to cut stone ripped out a large chunk of his face.