1st homograft at OGH
The Hindu
Procedure performed on 21-year-old youth who suffered burns from an electric shock
The first homograft procedure was conducted on a patient at Osmania General Hospital on Tuesday. Homograft is a procedure where skin harvested from a brain-dead donor is used for grafting on another patient.
While corporate hospitals also perform the procedure, they buy skin from skin banks in other States as this commercial facility is not available in Telangana. Around ₹40-60 per square cm of skin is spent.
Usually, skin is taken from thighs or posterior trunk (back) of the patient who suffers burns and the procedure is called autograft. When autograft is not possible, homograft is performed to increase the survival chances.
In 2011, the Karnataka government announced that five botanical gardens will be developed on the lines of the Lalbagh Botanical Garden in Bengaluru across the State. But according to the latest developments, there will only be four such gardens as the Horticulture Department is most likely to drop the project that was supposed to come up in Chikkaballapura district.