AAPI selects three burns centres of excellence in India

Rita Dutta - Mumbai

The American Association of Physicians of Indian origin (AAPI), a consortium of 30,000 Indian physicians based in the US, working on standardising burns care in India has selected four burns centres across the country as their burns centre for excellence. These centres would be utilised as resource centres for educational activities and for training personnel in those region for burns management.

The four centres are the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital (Mumbai), L G hospital (Ahmedabad), Lok Manya Tilak hospital and Maulana Azad Medical College (New Delhi). Said Dr L Hanumadass, chairman, task force on burns care in India and former director, Summer Koch Burn Centre, US, “The task force will provide technical help and expertise in establishing the centre at Ahmedabad.” The cost of the project is estimated to be close to 200,000 USD.

“The funds will be raised from NGOs and philanthropists both in the US and India. We have received initial proposals and plans for the project,” he added. However, AAPI would not be rendering any financial help to burns centre at Mumbai and New Delhi. The task force would also select burns centre in the eastern and southern regions of India. AAPI also intends to form a burns registry in India. In India around 7 lakh burns patients are hospitalised and 1.2 lakh die annually due to burns.