Taiwan Receives Skin Donations From International Friends

After an explosion caused by inflammable colour powder in a New Taipei water park resulted in three deaths and more than 500 victims, a huge need for skin tissue have arisen in the more than 48 Taiwanese hospitals with hospitalised burned victims.

Luckily international help has poured into the island from different international friends such as the Netherlands and Japan.

Recently the Euro Tissue Bank in Amsterdam has sent a shipment of cadaver skin to help treat people with severe burns, after its manager Ger Kropman learned of the tragedy through CNN.

“Because the burn victims are at growing risk of developing infections in the coming days, the shipment must get to Taiwan as soon as possible to help save their lives,” said Kropman to dutch newspaper Das Teelegraf.

Also the Japanese Red Cross has also donated a shipment of 2,730 pieces of artificial skin for immediate use in five hospitals, and even Chinese officials have pledged to provide help with expertise in treating burned victims.

Some health care centers use mainly use bioengineered skin processed from pig skin or synthetic skin as substitutes, but none is as good a replacement as human skin and unfortunately skin tissue can only be collected after the death of the donor.

In case you are interested in helping the recovery of burned victims the Sunshine Social Wellfare Foundation has been doing this hard but necessary work in Taiwan for many years.

Sources: China Post, Focus Taiwan

Photo Credit: Euro Tissue Bank

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