Team News Riveting
Raipur, August 20
The first skin bank of Chhattisgarh and SAIL was started in the Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital and Research Center, the main hospital of Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP).
Apart from this, Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital and Research Center also became the first institute for cadaveric tissue transplant in Chhattisgarh.
SAIL-Bhilai Steel Plant has always made positive efforts to provide excellent healthcare services to the steel fraternity. On the auspicious occasion of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav, the Skin Bank established at Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital and Research Center was inaugurated by Anirban Dasgupta, Director-in-Charge of BSP.
A committee of skilled doctors of the hospital has been given the responsibility for the operation of the skin bank established in the advanced burn care department of Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital and Research Centre, Sector-9. The Chief Medical Officer-in-Charge (Medical and Health Services) Dr. M. Ravindranath has been made the administrative head of the Skin Bank. Additional CMO Dr. Uday Kumar has been given the responsibility of Manager of Skin Bank. Similarly, Deputy CMO Dr Anirudh Mene has been made the Medical Head of Skin Bank. In this sequence, Consultant Dr. Akanksha Sharma has been given the responsibility of Microbiologist of Skin Bank.
Required space, necessary machines and trained staff are required to start the skin bank of Bhilai. Space has been earmarked in the Advanced Burn Care Department to start the skin bank and necessary machines like electrical dermatome, skin masher, biosafety cabinet and Freezers, incubators etc. were provided in which the top management extended their support. Six staff of Burn Department of Bhilai Steel Plant were trained at the Skin Bank of National Burn Center, Mumbai. These trained staff will be helpful in starting the skin bank in Bhilai. The manual for the entire process has been made.
A four-member inspection team of the State Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization (SOTTO) of Chhattisgarh conducted the inspection of the skin bank established in the Advanced Burn Care Department of the Jawaharlal Nehru Hospital and Research Center, Sector-9. This team examined the necessary documents and equipment for starting a skin bank in the hospital of Bhilai Steel Plant. Satisfied with the availability of necessary equipment, necessary documents and trained medical staff, the team from Raipur gave permission to start the skin bank.
Along with giving permission to start Skin Bank, a registration number has been issued from SOTTO, Raipur which will be valid for 5 years. Thus, the skin bank established in the main hospital of BSP has become the first Skin bank of Chhattisgarh. With its establishment, BSP Hospital has started the work of making people aware about skin donation, so that people make skin donations to the skin bank and contribute in saving the lives of serious patients.
Dr. Uday Kumar, Additional CMO of Burn Unit said that in the coming time, BSP’s skin bank will prove to be a boon for severely burnt patients. With this skin bank, patients with severe burns will get a new life. Only after the consent of the patient or their relatives, the upper layer of the skin of the patient’s leg or back is removed through an electrical dermatome and proper bandage is done at the removed area, taking the removed skin in 50 percent glycerol and incubator in the skin bank. After the report of the necessary test is received, small holes are made on the skin by the skin manor in the biosafety cabinet, so that the glycerol and antibiotic solution can penetrate into it and there is no infection in the skin. After this process, a proper label with name registration number is stored in the freezer at 85 percent glycerol; this skin is stored at 4 degrees for about 5 years.
