Chronic wounds are the really big problem. It consumes hospital beds and it is really difficult to manage it especially in rural areas where sterile dressings are not available to patients at their local general practitioners. NPWT or negative pressure wound therapy is being popularized nowadays, there are two options in it, gauze dressing and foam dressing the cost of one dressing material also varies from 1 to 10 thousand.

Is it really cost effective to advise NPWT to chronic wound patients?