This department treats conditions related to plastic, reconstructive and cosmetic surgery, and also hand surgery. Treatment covers:

• Skin tumours, both benign and cancerous
• Traumatisms
• Burns and their after-effects
• Skin and soft tissue infections
• Skin necroses, whether they are infectious, traumatic, thermal or ischaemic (involving reduction of blood supply)
• Malformations
• Cosmetic surgery as a whole
• Hand surgery, both as scheduled or emergency surgery.

An emergency hand service (SOS Main, ‘SOS Hand’) is available 24 hours a day for the treatment of traumatisms (wound, tendons, nerves, fracture, amputation) in Sion/Sierre Hospital.