Simon Weston on new burns surgery

Title

Simon Weston on new burns surgery

Genre

Interview

TX Date

31 Oct 1989

Year of production

1989

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Duration

00:01:18

Description

Vanessa Black (not heard) interviews Falklands war veteran Simon Weston about a pioneering new technique in plastic surgery that will give new hope for burns victims in the future. The new technique, in which skin tissue is transplanted from a patient who’s died, has been used to save a two-year old girl’s life (Ferrial Sayed from Southall, London). He says the new process could signal the beginning of even more radical research over the next few years. For Billboard programme.

Contributors

Vanessa Black; Simon Weston

Keywords

London; Surgery; Transplantation; Children (age group); Southall; Burns; Veterans (Armed Forces); Billboard (radio programme); Ferrial Syed; Plastic surgery

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