Operation Restore = Operation Successful
The National Burns Centre, in collaboration with Operation Smile and the Rotary Club of Deonar, is breaking ground with a workshop on Contracture Release Surgery. More than fifty patients underwent surgery to reconstruct their contractures, and allow them free movement of their joints and other parts of their body. Most of these patients have multiple contractures on different parts of their body, and are the first set of people in India to receive this sort of post burn contracture release surgery and physiotherapy.
This marked the first time in history when the National Burns Centre housed more than fifty patients at one time. A team of surgeons, nurses, and volunteers from Operation Smile, worked hand in hand with the Team at NBC and that of the Rotary Club of Deonar to pull together this never before event.
The patients had been pre screened, as well as all the medical tests had also taken place in advance. The Operation Smile team began work on the 9, January, 2010 and continued till the 17, January. Post surgery treatment included dressings, monitoring, etc, in addition to physiotherapy and rehabilitation.
During this period special burns treatment seminars were conducted for surgeons, nurses and medical students to learn how to deal with burns.
