Maggots could save NHS big money

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Maggots as a means of medicine is not a new idea. They have been used throughout history from the hill people of Northern Burma to the Confederate physicians of the American Civil War.

The reintroduction of maggot medicine has been touted for the last few years but, unsurprisingly, the reception from potential patients has not been a warm one.

However, researchers in Bridgend have now developed a new method which may change minds. The new dressing has the maggots within it so you no longer have to consider watching them tucking into your flesh.

Steve Thomas of the NHS affiliated company Zoobiotic, which is the principle supplier of sterile maggots for medicinal purposes, claimed the treatment could save the NHS £160m a year.

ZooBiotic Ltd

Units 2-4 Dunraven Business Park

Coychurch Road

Bridgend

CF31 3AP

Tel: 0845 2301810

Fax: 01656 668047

The unit is believed to be the largest, most sophisticated maggot production facility in the world within which maggots will be produced under the same conditions as all other sterile pharmaceutical products, in strict compliance with European standards for Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).

e-mail orders: maggot-orders@zoobiotic.com