National Burns Centre ::: A 50 beded Burns Hospital at Airoli, New Mumbai :::

Inauguration of State-of-Art Intensive Burns Care Unit (IBCU) and New Skin Regeneration Lab.
Date: 2^nd August, 2009

The newly built state-of-the-art Intensive Burns Care Unit (IBCU) and state-of-the-art Skin Regeneration Laboratory of National Burns Centre, Airoli was inaugurated on 2^nd August 2009 in the hands of chief guest Dr. F.E. Udwadia (noted Physician & pioneer of ICU care in India).The President of India Burn Research Society (IBRS). Mrs. Sandra Shroff gave the welcome address to the invitees and explained the background of IBRS. Dr. Sunil. M. Keswani the noted Plastic Surgeon and the honorary Secretary of the IBRS described the need of a holistic burns care management like education, training, prevention, treatment & research under one roof, as his late father & founder of National Burns Centre Dr. M. H Keswani had dreamed of about three decades ago. He described the NBC success till date .The ideas of treatment to all (irrespective of rich or poor) was emphasized .Rotary District Governor T. N. Subramanium emphasized the need for continued community burns prevention exercise and the measures Rotary and IBRS are taking. A presentation was made by Dr. Vishal Warke about the burns injury therapy by culturing skin cells in the laboratory and making cost effective skin substitutes. He also outlined the noble idea of creating a Bio skin bank at N.B.C in near future. Dr. F.E Udwadia described about how how Intensive Care Unit was born in 1930s as an extension of operation theatre recovery rooms.