AIIMS Delhi Launches Face Transplant Programme, Offering New Hope to Acid Attack Survivors - Video
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The premier health institution, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, has become the first in India to launch a face transplant programme and is preparing to perform the country's first such surgery within a year, officials said.
The Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Burns Surgery at AIIMS has initiated the process of setting up a registry of patients having severe facial deformity along with the loss of vital functions of the face like breathing, mouth opening and blinking and have not benefited despite multiple surgical procedures.
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AIIMS Delhi launches India's first face transplant programme
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