<p>The couple have taken up the brand ambassadorship for skin donation awareness to help the cause of burn victims.<br /><br />The celebrity couple are closely associated with the National Burn Institute's (NBI) Skin Bank and had recently signed up to donate their skin, Dr Shilpa Karnik said.<br /><br />"Skin donation can be done after a person's death and our retrieval team take out one eighth of the skin from lower extremities and back," she said.<br /><br />"Through the brand ambassadorship of Rawal and Sampath and their gesture to donate skin could go a long way in creating awareness about skin donation to burn patients to relieve them from their pain and infection," said Karnik, who is in-charge of the skin donation section of the NBI.<br /><br />"We are observing August one as the Skin Donation Day since last year but so far only 15 to 20 calls have for skin donation," she said.<br /><br />Rawal and Sampath, a former Miss India and actress, conduct awareness campaigns and talk about the importance of skin donation and will be active in the upcoming skin donation drive planned by NBI.</p>
<p>The couple have taken up the brand ambassadorship for skin donation awareness to help the cause of burn victims.<br /><br />The celebrity couple are closely associated with the National Burn Institute's (NBI) Skin Bank and had recently signed up to donate their skin, Dr Shilpa Karnik said.<br /><br />"Skin donation can be done after a person's death and our retrieval team take out one eighth of the skin from lower extremities and back," she said.<br /><br />"Through the brand ambassadorship of Rawal and Sampath and their gesture to donate skin could go a long way in creating awareness about skin donation to burn patients to relieve them from their pain and infection," said Karnik, who is in-charge of the skin donation section of the NBI.<br /><br />"We are observing August one as the Skin Donation Day since last year but so far only 15 to 20 calls have for skin donation," she said.<br /><br />Rawal and Sampath, a former Miss India and actress, conduct awareness campaigns and talk about the importance of skin donation and will be active in the upcoming skin donation drive planned by NBI.</p>