Need for the Chair

• No regional or national data on congenital hand differences exist.
• There is no registry for a comprehensive documentation of entire clinical spectrum of anomalies in these children.
• Globally, only 3 population studies of congenital anomalies of the upper limb in the literature…Edinburgh, western Australia, Stockholm.
• There is no co-ordinated efforts in advancing learning and knowledge delivery among few centres treating such cases in our country.
• There is a lack of innovation and high quality research in this field.
• There is a lack of training to develop a pool of dedicated hand surgeons to treat these anomalies.