The creation of this department was accelerated by the war, because as a result of Russian bombing hundreds of people across the country received deep burns, according to TSN .

Mikhail received severe burns during the explosion – a Russian shell hit his house in Popasna. “I was in the house, they were killed by shells, the house caught fire, to leave the house, everything falls hotter from the ceiling,” the man says about getting injured.

The man managed to get out on his own before the house turned to ashes. He has about 7% of his body damaged. But there are patients whose burns are much deeper and larger. Usually, pig skin is used for treatment in Ukraine, which temporarily covers wounds. But this is not very effective, doctors explain. “We used to cover with a variety of coatings and covered with pigskin, it did not give such a result,” explains Alexander Dunaev, head of the thermal injury and plastic surgery department.

According to modern world standards, burns are treated radically, doctors explain – by excising dead skin. And after that, patients should be stabilized by closing the wounds. Pig skin is enough for up to 10 days, this is not enough for healing. Donor can be used for several months. “When there is a shortage of our own skin, a large area is burned, we had a struggle where to take the skin faster so that the wound heals faster. When we close the wounds with donor skin, we stabilize the patient, then we take our own skin and close it step by step,” says the surgeon.

Previously, donor skin treatment was possible only abroad, but the Ukrainian skin bank will operate in the department being completed. It will be used in Lviv and will be transferred to hospitals throughout Ukraine. Now the need for this has increased significantly, because due to the bombing, the number of people who received burns has increased significantly.

The department is designed for seventy inpatient beds and another twenty intensive care units. The equipment will also be modern, doctors say. Each patient should be in a separate box with the microflora of the intensive care unit, with the flora that a patient with a burn injury has. There will be an exhaust-pull microclimate system,” says Vasily Trunkvalter, director of the St. Luke’s Hospital I of the Lviv medical association.

The first patients in this burn center are planned to be accepted in the summer.

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