On Friday, October 10, the Burn Division’s Malawi Burn Center was featured on MSNBC. The segment appeared on the latest episode of Hardball, which is hosted by Chris Matthews.
Chris Matthews was a student at UNC-Chapel Hill and served in the Peace Corps in Africa and has taken a great interest in the work that UNC’s North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center is doing in Malawi.
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.
A full video of the segment can be found here.
If you would like to make a donation to the UNC Malawi Burn Center, please do so at this link.