Australian tissue banks have sent skin to NZ to treat the most severely injured from Monday's volcano eruption.
Australians are being urged to commit to donating their skin - to help build up tissue supplies which are expected to be wiped out by the New Zealand volcano eruption.
Australia has sent 20,000 square centimetres to New Zealand to treat victims of the volcano eruption."The ideal treatment for burns victims is to use their own skin, so you take from a healthy site to transplant onto a wounded site," Dr Poniatowski said. New Zealand has ordered 1.2 million square centimetres of skin from the United States but requested Australia's help on Tuesday as patients could not afford to wait until it arrives later this week.
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