Thursday, December 13, 2012

Tissue bone banks in India soon


Chennai:
Now bone banks are likely to become a reality in India in next six months with the government planning to come up with a legislation in this regard, according to president elect of Indian Orthopaedic Association (IOA) Dr S K S Marya.
Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the inaugural of IOACON 2012, the 57th annual conference of IOA, Marya said currently there is no legislation in India for tissue bone banking and a new legislation is expected in the next six months.
He said India currently has few bone banks and the new legislation could help opening of more tissue bone banks.
The tissue bone bank serves as procurement and distribution centre of human allograft tissues such as bone obtained from live donors as well as amputated limbs. The bones can be taken from a person in the age group of 20 to 65 and kept frozen at a temperature of -80 degree for four weeks so that the immunogenicity is reduced after which it is sterilized by gamma irradiation.  It also can provide soft tissue grafts like bone tendon bone grafts and ligaments.
Interestingly, bone transplantation is a rapidly growing and expanding field and has a significant impact on improving the quality of life for the recipient in need. Just as is the case with heart and kidney donation, he said efforts should be made to encourage more of cadaveric bone donations. He said the potential donors will be evaluated by the bank and they should be in the age group of 20 to 65.

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