Osmania General Hospital first in Telangana to conduct skin allograft

Osmania General Hospital (OGH) has become the first government healthcare facility in Telangana to have utilised a skin allograft donated from a deceased brain dead victim on a patient, who had received severe burn injuries after electrocution.

Osmania General Hospital (OGH) has become the first government healthcare facility in Telangana to have utilised a skin allograft donated from a deceased brain dead victim on a patient, who had received severe burn injuries after electrocution.

The Rs. 60 lakh state-of-the-art skin bank at OGH is a first of its kind facility in the two-Telugu speaking States where donated skin from brain dead victims can be harvested and stored. The donated skin is vital to save the lives of burn victims, who struggle to survive if the percentage loss of body skin is more than 50 percent.

Earlier, the OGH plastic surgeons had harvested donor skin when relatives of a patient, who was declared as brain dead at Apollo Hospitals, had donated the skin of the deceased. Telangana Today