New Zealand has ordered 186,000 square inches of skin grafts from the United States to aid the burn victims from the volcano eruption.
Published 10:59 AM EST Dec 11, 2019
A majority of the burns, said Dr. John Kenealy, the clinical director of surgery at Counties Makanau, were very severe. Some patients' burns covered 90 to 95% of their bodies. "This has necessitated more rapid surgical treatment of these burns than is the usual case for thermal only burns," Watson said, noting that treatment for some patients may take months. Doctors, he said, are working round-the-clock to help victims.
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