About a year back, Charla Nash was attacked and mauled by a chimpanzee, and now her attorney has shared that a hospital, which is popular for performing the first ever face transplant in the US, has said that it "cannot" perform a face and heart transplant on the woman.

Bill Monaco, Nash's attorney, has said that the family of the victim is currently in the process of approaching other medicinal facilities, after the Cleveland Clinic expressed its inability to undertake both the transplants there. The transplants, the attorney shared, have to be administered simultaneously and organs should come from the same donor.

In 2008, the Cleveland Clinic had made history by becoming the hospital to perform the country's first ever face transplant.

In February of last year, 56 year old Nash was attacked by a 200-pound chimpanzee, Travis, who ripped off her hands, nose, lips and eyelids.

No comments have yet been shared by the hospital on the news.