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PIL seeks setting up of skin bank, biomaterial centre

The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court sought response from State government on a PIL which sought direction to open a skin bank, burns ward and a biomaterial centre in south TN. 

Express News Service

MADURAI: The Madurai Bench of Madras High Court sought response from State government on a PIL which sought direction to open a skin bank, burns ward and a biomaterial centre in south TN. 

The litigant R Mani Bharathi referred to a news report published in TNIE Madurai edition highlighting the need for these facilities in the Government Rajaji Hospital (GRH) of Madurai and the Government Medical College Hospital in Tirunelveli.

A division bench of Justices MM Sundresh and S Ananthi directed the State Health Secretary to file an affidavit on steps taken to establish a skin bank and burns unit in Madurai and about the construction of biomaterial centres in southern districts.

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