For 8-month-old Dhyaansh, the youngest victim of the June 12 Air India plane crash, his mother not only turned a saviour when she rescued him from the on ground crash fire but also provided her skin for grafts to treat his deep burn wounds.The child, who suffered 36 per cent burns, is on the road to recovery as the skin of his mother, who also sustained 25 per cent burns, used for grafts helped in healing his wounds, as per doctors.
Skin grafts involve transplanting healthy skin to cover wounds, burns or areas damaged by surgery or disease and promote tissue growth to help a person heal.
The infant and his mother have been discharged from a private hospital here following five weeks of intensive treatment and plastic surgery to restore the skin damaged due to fire, doctors said on Monday.
The child’s own skin along with his mother’s skin grafts were used to treat his third-degree burn wounds, said Dr Rutvij Parikh, consultant plastic surgeon at the KD Hospital.
When the Air India 171 plane crashed into the BJ Medical College’s hostel-cum residential complex here on June 12, Manisha Kachhadiya and her son Dhyaansh were in one of the buildings affected by the crash.
Dhyaansh’s father Kapil Kachhadiya is pursuing his super-speciality MCh degree course in urology at the BJ Medical College attached with the Civil Hospital.