Goa Medical College To Get A Skin Bank for patients with extensive burns
Panaji: In an applaudable move, the Department of Plastic Surgery at the Goa Medical College has advocated for a Skin Bank to provide easier access for burns victims to skin grafts.
This is aimed at helping victims with severe burns over 60-70%, by increasing their chances of survival as skin grafts have excellent prognosis and can considerably improve the survival rate in burns patients.
Dr Yuri Amborcar, Head of Department of Plastic Surgery at GMC spoke to Times of India and said, "We have proposed to set up the skin bank so that patients having extensive burns can be saved. Overall burn incidents have dropped but people suffering burns in factory accidents have not. Those patients come with severe injuries and skin grafting can be of help to them."
The skin stored at such banks remains viable upto 5 years provided that it is stored in a suitable storage medium. The GMC has got an approval to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with National Burns Centre, to set up a skin bank. The National Burns Centre, Dr. Amborcar added has a licence from the Euro skin bank. "It will share expertise for setting up skin bank in the GMC. Our staff including some doctors, nurses and multi-tasking staff were trained at the National Burns Centre," he elaborated.
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