The department of plastic surgery has the expertise and equipment to handle a wide range of cases including congenital deformities, deformities arising out of trauma, surgery and burns and cosmetic surgeries. Microvascular surgical procedures to reimplant amputated hands and fingers has brought many people bacl to normal life. Procedures like augmentation mammoplasty, reduction mammoplasty, correction of ptosis of breast, correction of retracted nipple, reconstruction after mastectomy, etc. Have been a blessing to many women. The department also undertakes excision and reconstruction of oral cancers. The hand reconstruction and rehabilitation clinic also games from the expertise of the department and the surgeons perform reconstruction of deformities, tendon and nerve injuries, toe to hand transfer, carpal tunnel release. The department also handles benign and malignant tumours of the skin, scars and ulcers arising from burns and trauma and repair of abdominal hernias and sagging abdomen among other problems of skin, abdomen, eye lids, limbs, face, etc.