Australia sends 'life-saving' skin donations to treat victims of NZ volcano explosion

Australian tissue banks have sent skin to NZ to treat the most severely injured from Monday's volcano eruption.

Number 3 Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron personnel preparing medical equipment to load onto a C-130J Hercules ahead of the flight to New Zealand. Source: Royal Australian Air Force

Australians are being urged to commit to donating their skin - to help build up tissue supplies which are expected to be wiped out by the New Zealand volcano eruption. 

Victoria and NSW tissue banks have sent 20,000 square centimetres of skin to New Zealand hospitals, which has been used to treat the most severely injured in the disaster.   

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