title: [Wound care within an Interplast mission].
abstract: As of 2001, the Centre for Severely Burned Patients at the Unfallkrankenhaus (Casualty Hospital) in Berlin has been working together with the sole centre for wound care in Kyrgyzstan. This cooperation consists not only of on-site operative applications; since the first contact with our Kyrgyzstani colleagues we have sought to improve the overall level of wound therapy in Kyrgyzstan. For this purpose, we organised educational trips to Germany for our Kyrgyzstani colleagues in addition to the numerous material donations (donations-in-kind). From the beginning of this project the motto of our cooperation was"helping them help themselves". This is in corresponds to the modern challenges of the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) of development partnerships and global cooperation.
authors.affiliation: Zentrum für Schwerbrandverletzte mit Plastischer Chirurgie, Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin, Warenerstr. 7, 12683, Berlin, Deutschland.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ottomann
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Hartmann
mesh_terms: D002053:Burn Units / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007707:Kyrgyzstan; D008493:Medical Missions / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014194:Traumatology / Q000458:organization & administration*