A 23 year old woman born without a vagina

A 23 year old woman who was born without a vagina, had a surgery yesterday to have a man- made one created for her.
According to Dailymail,
the woman whose surname was given as Zhang,
found out she had no vagina when she could not
menstruate after attaining puberty.

Zhang's mother reportedly checked her
daughter's body and found out that she didn't
have a vagina. The female anatomy has three
holes, the Vagina which is used for birthing a
child and sex, the Urethra which is for peeing and
the Anus which is used for excretion.

Zhang went to the hospital and was diagnosed
with a condition known as Mayer-Rokitansky-
Küster-Hauser syndrome (MRKH), a congenital
abnormality characterised by women who have
no vagina, womb and cervix. MRKH is found in
one in every 5,000 women or so in the world. A B-scan ultra-sonography revealed that Zhang has no vagina or uterus, but she has functioning ovaries.

She told the doctors that she had not been able
to date any man because of her condition and
also had to turn down many admirers who had
asked her out.

In a very rare medical procedure, surgeons from
the North-West China's Shaanxi Province on
February 15th, took a section of Zhang's small
intestine and used it to create a vagina for her.

The operation was assisted by a da Vinci robot, a
technology used to carry out minimal invasive
surgery. Doctors said the man-made vagina
should have no difference to a normal vagina in
terms of its appearance and functionality.

One of the doctors was quoted saying: 'If Zhang
wishes to have babies, we will need to carry out
a uterus transplant surgery.' Doctor Guo
Shuzhong who is a renowned plastic surgeon and
medical professor in China, led the medical team
that carried out the surgery.
Shuzhong conducted
the first face transplant operation in China in 2006
and successfully built an artificial ear for a man in
2006 using his patient's cartilage.

Source: UK Daily Mail