Photo: Dr Jo Maitz with Ms Rebecca Torbruegge at Concord Burns Unit.
NSW’s Concord Burns Unit supports around two-thirds of the state and the ACT, servicing 11 health districts and a population of over 5.5 million.
Patients from remote areas, including towns like ours in the western plains, often rely on the centre for specialist treatment.
In a medical breakthrough that could transform burns care, researchers at Concord Hospital in Sydney have developed a world-first technique to 3D print skin using a patient’s own cells then apply it directly to their wounds…