AAP General News (Australia)
12-26-2007
Qld: New skin bank for Queensland
The Queensland government will spend 1.4 million dollars on a new skin bank .. to better
cater for people who suffer from burns injuries.
Queensland Health Minister STEPHEN ROBERTSON says the Queensland Skin Bank and the
Queensland Skin Culture Centre will be operational next year.
He says it will ensure Queensland Health has a banked supply of skin available for
victims of natural disasters .. major industrial accidents or terrorism acts.
The Skin Culture Centre will be based at the Herston hospital campus in Brisbane's
north .. while the Skin Bank will be part of the Queensland Transplant Tissue Service
facility at Coopers Plains in the city's south.
Since 2003 Queensland has had to import skin from the Victoria or overseas.
AAP RTV dmc/jec/
KEYWORD: SKIN (BRISBANE)
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