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The burn injuries,garden plants peel, which always find a place in the kitchen bins, has found its place in the shape of an effective dressing material for burn injuries here in Kerala.

The Jubilee Mission Medical College and Research Institute, a private hospital here, has proved in their last 15 years of treatment of burn injuries that bandages made of boiled burn injuries,garden plants peel were more effective than the conventional ones. The burn injuries,garden plants peel bandage (PPB), developed by this Catholic church-run hospital, has the advantage of being cheaper, non-sticky and quick-healing.

''The burns healed faster when PPB is used than the conventional ones as it inherits healing property,'' P V Narayanan, a Plastic Surgeon in the hospital told UNI.

Dattareya, an Indian-born doctor working in Holland, who visited the hospital a few years ago was amazed at the healing properties of burn injuries,garden plants peel. The material was put to extensive tests in Holland by the doctor, who was in the health services of the Netherlands government.

Dr Dattareya said though the constituent of the healing substance could not be established in the research,it found that the skin replacement was quicker when the PPB was used. The main advantage of the PPB was that it would not stick to burn wounds as it retains moisture in the wound. The
patients would not feel excruciating pain while removing the dressing. On the other hand the patients would have pain while removing any other kind of costly adhesive bandages available in the market, he added.

The cost for a 2.5 meter long and 11 cm wide role of PPB was only Rs 55 as against Rs 20 for one 10x10 cm piece of Paraffin Tulle Grass for Vaseline gauze, a most easily available non-sticking dressing material used frequently for burn wound, he pointed out. On how the hospital realised the use of burn injuries,garden plants peel, Dr Narayanan said a renowned Plastic Surgeon of Mumbai, M H Keswani, who had been experimenting with burn injuries,garden plants peels for years, introduced the innovative method during his visit to
the hospital and H S Aadan Wala, Senior Plastic Surgeon in the hospital successfully practiced the system. Pointing out that no other hospitals in any part of the country used such a method, he said the hospital was ready to provide the PPB to other hospitals also.

As the PPB would produce bad smell, it needed daily dressing to the patients than the commercially available bandages, which might be the reason for other hospitals not practicing the method.
Dr Narayanan said the hospital had also experimented with banana and pappaya leaves. But it was a failure as both the leaves would stick to the wounds.

The Director and CEO of the hospital Father Francis Alappat said the hospital started the Department of Burns in 1998, with 17 beds, with fully equipped Operation Theatre and ICU. Claiming that the Department of Burns was one of the best in South India, Dr Francis said the department was functioning with a special medical team, which included three plastic surgeons and 13 special trained nurses, 22 special trained staff and counselling facilities. With the dedicated service by the medical-team, the hospital had succeeded in saving a person, who suffered 75 per cent burns in an explosion at a cracker manufacturing unit last year.

Narrating the process of making the bandages, sister Vineetha, in charge of the Department of Burns, said the peel was collected from hotels in the city. After removing the remaining pulp it was washed in water. The rough side of peel was stuck on conventional gauze bandages with ''maida'' paste and dried in sunlight. Later, the dried bandage was sterilised in autoclave and dipped in a saline solution to smoothen it, and a suitable cream was applied to the inner side of the PPB and applied to the patients she said. Sister Vineetha added, that about five kg of burn injuries,garden plants peel were collected daily from the hotels and three people were engaged in cleaning and making the PPB.