High-tech apparatus: HKL director Datuk Dr Zaininah Mohd Zain (left) and Dr Noor Hisham (centre) checking out medical equipment at an exhibition booth during the seminar.
KUALA LUMPUR: Soy sauce, toothpaste, butter, egg white and salt – these are just some of the things that ill-informed parents apply to burns suffered by their children.
“Parents often don’t know what to do when children are burnt or scalded and apply things which make it worse,” said Dr Mohd Yusof Abdullah, a paediatric surgeon at Hospital Kuala Lumpur’s Burn Unit.
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