First government-run tissue bank opens
₹1.5Cr Facility To Be Ready In 1 Month
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: The state’s first government-run tissue bank, inaugurated at Kilpauk medical college hospital on Wednesday, will soon be a salve for burns and trauma patients.
The ₹1.5-crore facility will be functional in a month’s time as officials rev up the campaign for donation. The unit will initially serve as a skin bank and then expand to other tissues. “We will converge the skin donation campaign with eye donation,” said health minister C Vijayabaskar, who, along with officials from National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation, inaugurated the repository.
Dr S Raja Sabapathy, chairman of plastic surgery, hand and microsurgery department, Ganga Hospital in Coimbatore, said since 2011, its facility had received 133 donations. “We still need a lot more,” he said. The health department said two such banks will be set up in Madurai and Tirunelveli.
₹1.5Cr Facility To Be Ready In 1 Month
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai: The state’s first government-run tissue bank, inaugurated at Kilpauk medical college hospital on Wednesday, will soon be a salve for burns and trauma patients.
The ₹1.5-crore facility will be functional in a month’s time as officials rev up the campaign for donation. The unit will initially serve as a skin bank and then expand to other tissues. “We will converge the skin donation campaign with eye donation,” said health minister C Vijayabaskar, who, along with officials from National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organisation, inaugurated the repository.
Dr S Raja Sabapathy, chairman of plastic surgery, hand and microsurgery department, Ganga Hospital in Coimbatore, said since 2011, its facility had received 133 donations. “We still need a lot more,” he said. The health department said two such banks will be set up in Madurai and Tirunelveli.
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