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Burns
management turns into a burning issue
Even
with 7 lakh burns patients being hospitalized and 1.2 lakh
dying annually, there are only 32 burns units, with inadequate
facilities and around 40 burns surgeons in India. Not to mention
the cost of treatment that runs up to Rs 4,00,000. Rita Duta
finds out what ails burns care in India.
AAPI
to standardize burns care in India
With
more than 1,20,000 deaths occurring due to burns injury every
year in India, burns experts of American Association of Physicians
of Indian origin (AAPI), a consortium of 30,000 Indian physicians
based in the US, are formulating protocols to be followed
for management of burns patient.
“AAPI
is only a facilitator”
Dr
M L Hanumadass, chairman, task force on burns care in India
for AAPI and former director at the US-based Cook County hospital
had recently come down to India to evaluate burns centre of
different cities and brainstorm with Indian burn surgeons
for formulating guidelines on burns centres in India.
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