Dr Sunil Keswani, plastic surgeon and director of the National Burns Centre (NBC) in Airoli, Navi Mumbai, flagged the lack of awareness and a serious shortfall in skin donation at a conference at the Indian Merchants’ Chamber building on Thursday evening.

“We need 150 donations a month, but instead we have 30. We have three skin banks in the city and one in Navi Mumbai. Yet, there is little use of skin banks when there is such a shortfall of cadaveric skin donors,” he said.