Dressing Room

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In November, Care4Burn will travel to Tanzania and KCMC in Moshi. Here we will spend a week in the Burn Unit.

One of the focus areas this year is to help the department establish a “Dressing Room”, a so-called bandage-changing room. With a Dressing Room, all hospitalized patients can receive daily dressings in a separate room instead of in the hospital bed, in front of other patients. A Dressing Room serves as a meeting place for doctors, nurses, occupational- and physiotherapists. Here they can look together at the wounds, at newly placed skin grafts and make plans for further surgery and/or wound healing. The Dressing Room is also a place where the surgeons can see the results of their work from the operating room 💊🔥


The Burn Unit at KCMC has a room that is suitable as a dressing room. We look forward to participate in the establishment of a concrete and decisive part of the burn treatment.


Together we can make a difference! ❤

Invaluable skin-staplers

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When performing burn surgery, staples (skin staplers), which are used to fasten/close transplanted skin, are essential.
A skin-stapler work in the same way as a single stitch with a suture, which is a stitching of the skin with a thread.


Using staples saves time, does not increase the risk of infection and gives the same cosmetic result as a regular suture.
After extensive damage, where large burned areas on the body must be covered with skin grafts, the use of staples is therefore necessary to complete the operation 🙏❤️


In Tanzania, one staple with 35-40 pins costs about DKK 70-80. Depending on the size of the graft, 2-5 staples are usually used for each surgery.


Despite the need being great, staplers are not a part of the surgical equipment at KCMC.


Care4Burn works to ensure access to skin-staplers. If you would like to help us with this task, send us a message at info@care4burn.org 💌


Together we can make a difference