The director of the National Burns Centre in Airoli (Navi Mumbai) said recently at a press conference that we have a very serious shortfall of skin donations.

Cadaveric skin donations are not coming in to our four skin banks because of a lack of awareness and information and considerable superstition and myths that prove an obstruction to the team reaching the family where a death has occurred and a person registered with the skin bank has passed away. They are then stopped at times or face numerous hurdles that cause time to elapse and the team leaves without the donation.