At KMC in Chennai government run tissue bank is opened now
Posted on: 25/Jan/2018 9:53:51 AM
People suffering from severe burns lose their skin, tissues etc are known. As a result these people also lose their self confidence and become a target for humiliation. The good news that has come out now is state government’s first tissue bank was opened on Wednesday 24th of January 2018 at the famous Kilpauk Medical College in Chennai. It is now said that this tissue bank would provide solution for those people with burns and trauma.
According to the officials this government tissue bank would start functioning soon in a month and its cost is amount Rs 1.5 crores. Initially this would be serving as skin bank and later on it would extend to other tissues also.
Mr C. Vijaya Bhaskar minister for health inaugurated this tissue bank at KMC yesterday and in the event there were also officials from National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization. The minister for health spoke about the merging of skin donation camp with eye donation camp.
Chairman of Ganga Hospital, Coimbatore, department of hand and microsurgery and plastic surgery Dr. Raja Sabapathy spoke about how from the year 2011 onwards there were 133 donations and how more such donations would be needed in the future also.
Dr. Raja Sabapathy expressed his thoughts about the rate of survival of the patients with burns and said those patients below 30 percent of burns survived and those with more than 80 percent burns lost their lives. Rate varied for those patients who had burns between these above said numbers.
He finally threw light on the fact that in the developed nations patients having more than 60 percent burns survive. One important piece of information is two tissue banks would be set up in places like Tirunelveli and Madurai also for the sake of the people.
It must be noted that KMC is a famous medical college in Chennai and was established in the year 1960.
