Rajkot: First of Saurashtra skin bank Likely to be commissioned at Rajkot Civil Hospital (PDU Hospital) from next week, said hospital officials on Monday.
Hospital officials said the skin bank would help save the lives of critically injured and serious accident victims.
Rotary Club of Rajkot Donated Rs 35 lakh to Rajkot Civil Hospital machinery for skin harvesting. The club will also send four technicians from PDU Hospital for training in Mumbai where they will learn the process of skin grafting and harvesting. According to doctors, the cut skin can be used for five years at the prescribed temperature.
Skin is needed for most burn victims. There are many cases of people, especially women, being set on fire in Saurashtra. Patients suffer burns in road as well as industrial accidents. In cases where the irritation is 20-30%, doctors use the victim’s own skin, but when the burn covers more than 60% of the body, the person needs a skin bank.
Rotary Club of Rajkot President Hita Mehta said: “Skin Bank will save many lives. In case of severe burns, a person dies of infection due to exposure of the burnt parts of the body to the external environment . Skin Bank will protect them. Lives.”
At least 10 patients are admitted to the burn ward of PDU Hospital every day and 25% of them are in critical condition. PDU Medical Superintendent Dr RS Trivedi said, “The skin bank is not just for the patients of our hospital, but will be available to any patient in Saurashtra who is in need of a skin.”
Trivedi said that if a patient of a private hospital needs skin, it will be provided from the bank and if hospitals in other districts need skin, they can also take it from the bank by making proper transportation arrangements. Trivedi said, “In some surgeries, patients need skin. Like in the case of mucormycosis which escalated after the second Covid-19 wave, many patients require skin grafting so that their bodies are infected post-surgery. not be done.”
The skin of cadavers and living patients can be harvested and safely grafted into the skin bank. According to doctors, the skin of a dead person can be grafted within six hours of his death.
“There is awareness about eye donation, organ donation and blood donation, but still very little awareness of skin donation. Once this skin bank is operational, our job will be to create awareness about the importance of skin donation ” Mehta added.
Hospital officials said the skin bank would help save the lives of critically injured and serious accident victims.
Rotary Club of Rajkot Donated Rs 35 lakh to Rajkot Civil Hospital machinery for skin harvesting. The club will also send four technicians from PDU Hospital for training in Mumbai where they will learn the process of skin grafting and harvesting. According to doctors, the cut skin can be used for five years at the prescribed temperature.
Skin is needed for most burn victims. There are many cases of people, especially women, being set on fire in Saurashtra. Patients suffer burns in road as well as industrial accidents. In cases where the irritation is 20-30%, doctors use the victim’s own skin, but when the burn covers more than 60% of the body, the person needs a skin bank.
Rotary Club of Rajkot President Hita Mehta said: “Skin Bank will save many lives. In case of severe burns, a person dies of infection due to exposure of the burnt parts of the body to the external environment . Skin Bank will protect them. Lives.”
At least 10 patients are admitted to the burn ward of PDU Hospital every day and 25% of them are in critical condition. PDU Medical Superintendent Dr RS Trivedi said, “The skin bank is not just for the patients of our hospital, but will be available to any patient in Saurashtra who is in need of a skin.”
Trivedi said that if a patient of a private hospital needs skin, it will be provided from the bank and if hospitals in other districts need skin, they can also take it from the bank by making proper transportation arrangements. Trivedi said, “In some surgeries, patients need skin. Like in the case of mucormycosis which escalated after the second Covid-19 wave, many patients require skin grafting so that their bodies are infected post-surgery. not be done.”
The skin of cadavers and living patients can be harvested and safely grafted into the skin bank. According to doctors, the skin of a dead person can be grafted within six hours of his death.
“There is awareness about eye donation, organ donation and blood donation, but still very little awareness of skin donation. Once this skin bank is operational, our job will be to create awareness about the importance of skin donation ” Mehta added.