Plastic surgeons\' association to perform free surgeries

COIMBATORE, June 22, 2011.





Ghulam Nabi Azad apprised of events on July 15



The Association of Plastic Surgeons of India has asked each of its 1,300 members to perform at least one surgery free of cost to poor patients on July 15, which will hereafter be observed by the association every year as Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Day.



Association president and Director of Ganga Hospital here S. Rajasabapathy said on Tuesday, "There is no point in merely distributing handbills and conducting routine functions to mark the day. Something more meaningful should be done. Therefore, the association decided on free surgeries." The surgeries could vary from correcting a birth deformity to reconstructing an injured hand.



Dr. Rajasabapathy and association secretary Atul Kumar Shah recently met Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad in New Delhi to list the events that the association would conduct on July 15.



Dr. Rajasabapathy said most people did not know about the option of plastic and reconstructive surgery. This was because unlike specialties such as cardiac and orthopaedic surgeries and neurosurgery, this subject did not relate to any particular organ. Plastic surgeons operated from head to foot.



Mr. Azad wanted the association to work out a project under which it could provide experts and the government could provide the infrastructure and resources for performing reconstructive surgery in places where it was not available. Dr. Rajasabapathy said the association would come up with a project to reach out to the masses.


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