The national news program CBN News aired a story about UNC’s North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center and the UNC Surgical Initiative in Malawi on Thursday, November 6, 2014 on the Christian Broadcasting Network. The story covered the work at the NC Jaycee Burn Center does here at UNC Chapel Hill, as well as the outreach to help survivors of burn injury in Malawi in Africa. Dr. Bruce A. Cairns is interviewed about the local burn injuries and care, and Dr. Anthony Charles is interviewed about the UNC Surgical Initiative in Malawi.
A replay of the story can be seen as part of an online article on the CBN News website here.
More information about the UNC Burn and Surgical Initiative in Malawi is available here.
There is a high risk of burn injury in Malawi, as homes are heated with open flames. With the support of Johnson & Johnson, UNC has created a Burn Center at the Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi. UNC is training Malawian surgical residents in the treatment of burn injury, with the hopes that they can become self-sufficient. Seventy percent of the patients treated in the center are children under the age of 10.