Who can be a skin donor?
- You don’t have to pay anything to the Skin Donation Team.
- Selling & buying organs is illegal.
- Anyone’s skin can be transplanted on any one, there is no blood, colour or age matching required.
- The skin is only taken from the back, thighs and legs and does not in any way disfigure the body.
- You need to produce the Death Certificate and its photocopy which will be evaluated by the Team Doctor before starting the procedure.
- There is no bleeding from the site where the skin is harvested from and there is no disfigurement to the body also. After the procedure, we bandage the parts where the skin is harvested in a proper way.
- Currently there are skin banks in Mumbai, Chennai, Karnataka and Delhi.
