National Burns Centre

Details

Name :

National Burns Centre

Address  :

Sector-13, Airoli,
Samarth Ramdas Swami Marg,

Town  :

Navi Mumbai

State  :

Maharashtra

Country  :

INDIA

Post Code:

400708

Phone  :

+91-22-2779 3333

Web URL  :


Description

The National Burns Center NBC promoted by the Indian Burns Research Society is a unique and pioneering project to tackle burns holistically Initially in case of extensive burns due to lack of autograft skin from live donors was used for treatment That added to the cost of treatment of donor alongwith recipient Thus the concept of Skin Banking in India was conceived by Late Dr Manohar H Keswani out of the dire need to save patients with critical burns who were dying because of lack of HOMOGRAFT

So in 1972 Dr Manohar H Keswani established a first of its kind Skin Bank in India at Wadia Children Hospital in Mumbai Years later on 21st November 2009 a stateoftheart RCBN Skin Bank in Mumbai was established at National Burns Centre in collaboration with Euro Tissue Bank It was setup with collaboration of Rotary Club of BombayNorth with Euro Skin Bank and Rotary Club of Leiden The Inauguration of the Skin Bank was done by the Director of Euro Skin Bank Dr Welsly Bodha

RCBN Skin Bank is a place where skin collected from eligible deceased donor is processed preserved and distributed as per INTERNATIONAL PROTOCOLS The Skin bank not only caters to NBC requirement but it also caters to the whole nation as there is no other skin bank of such high quality in the country today


History

The National Burns Center NBC promoted by the Indian Burns Research Society is a unique and pioneering project to tackle burns holistically Initially in case of extensive burns due to lack of autograft skin from live donors was used for treatment That added to the cost of treatment of donor alongwith recipient Thus the concept of Skin Banking in India was conceived by Late Dr Manohar H Keswani out of the dire need to save patients with critical burns who were dying because of lack of HOMOGRAFT

So in 1972 Dr Manohar H Keswani established a first of its kind Skin Bank in India at Wadia Children Hospital in Mumbai Years later on 21st November 2009 a stateoftheart RCBN Skin Bank in Mumbai was established at National Burns Centre in collaboration with Euro Tissue Bank It was setup with collaboration of Rotary Club of BombayNorth with Euro Skin Bank and Rotary Club of Leiden The Inauguration of the Skin Bank was done by the Director of Euro Skin Bank Dr Welsly Bodha

RCBN Skin Bank is a place where skin collected from eligible deceased donor is processed preserved and distributed as per INTERNATIONAL PROTOCOLS The Skin bank not only caters to NBC requirement but it also caters to the whole nation as there is no other skin bank of such high quality in the country today
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