A medical genetics department will be opened at SAT Hospital in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Minister for Health Veena George has said.
This is a huge step forward in rare genetic disease prevention, treatment, and research. Posts of a professor and an assistant professor had been created for this, said the Minister here on Wednesday.
A number of meetings were convened at the Ministerial level for starting the department, Ms. George said. SAT Hospital had been selected as a centre of excellence for rare diseases. The government had opened the first spinal muscular atrophy clinic at SAT Hospital. With the launch of a DM course in medical genetics in future, a number of experts in this area would be nurtured.
