Stanley Hospital gets subspecialty clinics

The five sub–specialty clinics are breast aesthetic surgery clinic, cleft lip clinic, advanced wound care clinic, hand transplantation clinic and a hand injury clinic. 

The minister also felicitated the 98-member transplant team who performed the state’s first hand transplant recently at the hospital. Earlier this month, the hands of a brain-dead patient were transplanted on a 29-year-old from Dindigul, who lost both his hands after being electrocuted. Vijaya Baskar honoured the donor family on the occasion. 

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami inaugurated in-patient ward at Gobichettipalayam Government College constructed at a cost of Rs 2.2 crore via video conferencing. He also inaugurated buildings worth Rs 10.45 crore and medical equipment worth Rs 74 lakh.