Tamil Nadu: First Skin Bank to open soon at Stanley Medical College and Hospital
CHENNAI: With the states of Odisha and Karnataka inaugurating with their skin banks, the Chennai is now reported to be planning to have its Skin Bank to give the new life hopes to the Victims of Burns attacks. Soon a cadaver donor skin bank will opened at Government Stanley Medical College and Hospital, a first in government sector.
The skin bank, which will work under the Cosmetology department of the hospital, was set up at Rs 1.4 crore. Till the date of completion of the proposed Skin Bank, government hospitals had to depend on private facilities for cadaver skin to treat emergency cases like patients with severe burns or acute skin allergies.
Earlier, Odisha has been opened the Skin Bank at the Institute of Medical Sciences and Sum Hospital, and Karnataka also has been established new destination for skin donors and for patients at Victoria Hospital.
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Speaking with Express ,Dr GR Ratnavel, head of the hospital's cosmetology department said, "If a person suffers 40 per cent burns, it can lead to infection and death. But temporary cadaver skin coating will reduce the death rate significantly".
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