Madhya Pradesh's first bone bank to start at MYH

Indore: Mahatma Gandhi Memorial College is all set to begin state's first bone bank at MY hospital in a couple of days.

MGMMC Dean Dr Sanjay Dixit made the announcement in this regard on Saturday during annual conference of The Indian Orthopaedic Association (IOACON 2022) in Indore.

The bone bank will preserve bones from accidental/fracture cases, replacements, and others and use them in tumour, cancer, and revision joint replacement patients to fill gaps. The revision joint replacement is done on those who need a replacement surgery again after a gap of certain years.

"The bone bank will begin in a couple of days at MY hospital. It will be the first in Madhya Pradesh hospital. The inspection for the bank has been completed and the approval is awaited which might come in a day or two," Dr Dixit told the media agency.

A senior orthopaedics faculty member at MGMMC, who is in know of the development said: The main requirement for bone bank is a freezer to maintain temperature of -80 degree C to preserve bones recovered from donors. The interesting thing about this is that no live donor is required as is the case in liver or kidney patients. The donors are those whose bone parts would be removed because of some issues like accident, or replacement surgeries, the faculty member said.

The recovered bones are disinfected, decalcified before being preserved and can only be used after six months. The donors are tested under standard operation procedures for any infectious disease. There is no preferential age group or condition for a donor. The best thing is that the bones, which are going to be wasted will be preserved for re-use, the faculty member said.

Such kinds of bone banks are existent in big metro cities but for a state like Madhya Pradesh it is a new thing. The proposal for a bone bank was mooted during recent visit of ACS Health Mohammad Suleman.