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The Tamil Nadu subdivision of the Indian Association of Dermatologists, Venereologists and Leprologists (IADVL) connected Tuesday welcomed the State government’s caller bid regulating aesthetic, cosmetology and hairsbreadth transplant clinics.
Addressing a property conscionable astatine the Chennai Press Club, office-bearers of the relation thanked the State authorities for issuing G.O. (Ms) No. 41 dated February 13, 2026, nether the Tamil Nadu Clinical Establishments Act, mandating registration and regularisation of clinics offering aesthetic and hairsbreadth transplant procedures.
The relation said the bid aligns with guidelines issued by the National Medical Commission (NMC) successful September 2022 and prescribes minimum standards for facilities that execute specified procedures. Under the guidelines, hairsbreadth transplant surgeries tin beryllium carried retired lone by qualified dermatologists with recognised postgraduate degrees specified arsenic MD, DVL, DDVL oregon DNB, oregon by MCh-qualified integrative surgeons.
Clinics performing specified procedures indispensable besides support operating theatre standards, guarantee the availability of exigency equipment, and supply anaesthetist enactment during surgeries.
IADVL representatives expressed interest implicit the expanding fig of unqualified individuals offering aesculapian aesthetic procedures. They said treatments specified arsenic laser therapy, injectables, dermatosurgery, hairsbreadth transplant procedures and ear-lobe repair were being performed by personnel, including physiotherapists, constitution artists and unit astatine cosmetology salons.
Such procedures autumn nether allopathic aesculapian signifier and necessitate specialised dermatology training, they said, informing that unqualified signifier amounts to aesculapian quackery and could airs risks to nationalist health.
The relation urged authorities to instrumentality strict ineligible enactment against amerciable practices and advised the nationalist to question skin, hairsbreadth and aesthetic treatments lone from dermatologists registered with NMC oregon the State Medical Council.
