The Sundargarh district administration has taken an unique initiative to bring smiles on the faces of victims of poor burn patients by offering them plastic surgery treatment free of cost. After identifying as many as 180 such victims, 13 of them, including seven women, were sent on Friday, to one Hyderabad -based hospital, where the doctors would try to bring back shape of their deformed part of the body through plastic surgery. The initiative has received wide appreciation.
Sources said victims of burnt patients, who although survived but due to deformity, they felt life to be a hell.
Financially well off patients take up plastic surgery but the poor manage to live with the deformities, since they cannot afford the costly treatment of plastic surgery.
In an effort to cure the poor burn patients, the Sundargarh Collector directed Sundargarh Sub Collector Bira Sen Pradhan to identify the patients in the district.
Accordingly an identification process was initiated about six months back, where in about 180 such patients were identified, sources said.
For providing plastic surgery treatment to these patients, the district administration, after examining the facilities at different hospitals of the country, had chosen the Akara Hospital, Hyderabad, which is a specialist hospital for plastic surgery treatment.
“Accordingly, on first phase, we have arranged to send 13 patients to Hyderabad along with one attendant each and one para medical team from Sundargarh,” said Sub Collector Pradhan.
Meanwhile, the 13 patients, their attendants and para medical team of the district administration had left from Sundargarh by bus and caught the train from Sambalpur during Friday afternoon. Sundargarh Collector Vinit Bharadwaj expressed his good wishes to them.