A 10-beded burn unit ready for unveiling near Sadar Hospital at Bokaro, will treat patients with all types of burns free of charge to the BPl family while others will have to pay about 40 percent of the total expenditure, informed S Murmu Civil Surgon Bokaro.
“The burn unit is completed now, we have already written a letter for its earliest takeover. As soon we got the charges, the process of appointments of specialist doctors and experts would be executed,” he added.
Presently we refer the burn cases to RMCH but after starting of this unit patients will not have to suffer form any kind of problems, he said.
Explaing about the burn injuries Murmu said, “Burn apparently an injury to the skin mostly caused by hot liquids, flames, radiant heat, direct contact with hot solids, caustic chemicals, electricity including other means which severely damages deeper tissues beneath the skin putting a burn victim at a high risk of being infected, the most common cause of death for extensively burnt persons”.
The first-degree burn causing redness and pain while the second-degree burns resulting into blisters like scald by hot liquid can however easily be cured, he said. The third-degree burns are considered to be of the most serious kind, the skin and the tissues beneath the skin are severely damaged in these cases. Burn also causes loss of body fluids and minerals through the wound, he said.