Daijiworld News Network – Udupi (VM)

Udupi, Sep 10: A Wound Clinic, an initiative to make available Limited Access Dressing (LAD), in any wound care in the world, has been opened at Dr T M A Pai Hospital, Udupi.

According to a press release the clinic will function every Thursday from 5pm to 7pm.

Medical Superintendent and Chief Operating Officer of Kasturba Hospital, Manipal Dr D P Saraswat inaugurated the Wound Clinic. Chief Administrative & Medical Officer, Dr T M A Pai Hospital, Udupi Dr Parvati V Bhat and the Professor and HOD of Plastic Surgery, Kasturba Hospital, Manipal Dr Pramod were present on the inaugural function.

‘‘The primary goal of our clinic would be to bring suffering of such patients to an end by providing aggressive quality care. We also will be concerned with rehabilitation of such patient,’’ the release stated.

‘‘Apart from our caring attitude and surgical modalities, we will be introducing newer methods of wound care that are not widely practiced and our own latest method of treating wounds, the LAD care,’’ release added.