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.
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