If reports are to be believed, doctors in Brazil have resorted to the use of Tilapia skins to treat burn victims.

First published by Reuters news agency, it showed Brazilian doctors using the fish skins on burnt skins.

According to BBC, the descaled skin is made into strips, sterilised and stored in refrigerators.

The doctors use them as plasters to dress wounds, the network reported.

The fish skin helps to heal the wounds with collagen, the most abundant protein in the human body and is responsible for holding the whole body together.

Doctors say that this is the most affordable form of treatment and hope that other countries will start using it too.

Tilapia is a popular Brazilian export and is a freshwater fish.

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