Donor skin aids burns victim

Title

Donor skin aids burns victim

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

31 Oct 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:03:02

Description

Science correspondent John Allen reports on an operation on two-year-old Ferrial Syed from Southall, London, which used a pioneering new technique in plastic surgery. Skin from a patient who had died was grafted over her wounds and a transplant drug called cyclosporin used. A new charity called the Restoration of Appearance and Function Trust (RAFT) has been launched to finance further research into the technique which could be use to transplant new faces onto burns victims. Also includes voice of Ferrial Syed and unidentified male (poss. father, Karimudda Syed); interviews with mother, Fauzia Syed; Roy Sanders, consultant plastic surgeon at Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, London. Broadcast on LBC Crown FM.

Contributors

John Allen; LBC Crown FM; Ferrial Syed; Fauzia Syed; Karimudda Syed?; Roy Sanders

Keywords

London; Surgery; Transplantation; Hospitals; Children (age group); Charities; Southall; Burns; Ferrial Syed; Plastic surgery; Restoration of Appearance and Function Trust; Northwood; Mount Vernon Hospital

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