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Association des Brûlés de France

Siège social: 46 quai de la Loire – 75019 PARIS

E-mail: abdidf@aol.com Internet: http://www.assocbrules-France.org

Tél: 01 42 02 25 01 – Fax: 01 42 40 37 20

Presentation of ABF on the occasion of the second

EBCA meeting in Brussels

Friday 26 November 2010

Presentation of ABF

Legal structure created in 1983

Activities are essentially based on:Listeni

ngSupportingInformingBurned people and their

familiesMore than 6000 members Donaters

Organization in the headquarters● 5 employees

● welcoming and secretary services:9h-13h from Monday to Friday● Legal support service

● Psychological support service

● Service « maquillage »

● Prevention service

● bookkeeper

● Service « Shiatsu »

Interventions of ABF

● For the acceptance of the burn pathology● Improving the reimbursement situation of burn victims:☛ on the medical field

At the level of public services, governments and official organizations

☛ on the social field

☛ on the economical field☛ on the legal field

ABF is founding member of EBCA

Actions of the ABF

● Permanence in rehabilitation centers

● Permanences in burn centers

● Training in schools for nurses (IFSIS)

● Participation and intervention in medical congresses● Organizing social events like cultural and sporty events

● Permanences in thermal cure centers

Legal support for burned people

Free legal support in the ABF headquarter

On the medical-legal field, the lawyers of AFB together with

medical and burn experts have allowed ABF to:Increase the level of « indemnisation »

Obtain a new statute for burn patients

To obtain the official acceptance of the scars as a parameter of invalidation

Psychological support service

ABF supports the patient during care and after care period

ABF brings in social support

Free and personal psychological support by means of professional

psychologists of the ABF is offered to burn patients and their families

« MAQUILLAGE » service

Free maquillage service can be used by the burn patients

« maquillage » allows the burn patients to re-establish

their own identity

Prevention service

Important aspect in the field of burns and its treatment, is the

prevention.In that aspect:

ABF is a member of the « Commission Nationale de

Prévention Incendie »ABF works in cooperation

with the European directorates and structures

Communication

ABF has its own magazine: le journal des brûlés (JDB)

ABF has regular contacts with media (press, TV, radio, …) and helps them on a regular

basis on burn topics.

ABF intervenes on burn topic conferences all over the French territory

ABF participates in European conferences on burns

Regional support points of ABF

Delegations of ABF

Secretary services at the headquarter of ABF

More than 3000 interventions following

phone requests for help.

More than 2000 replies through the channels of the ABF.

Some data on burnsBurns represent in France every year:

● 300 000 victims, all burn degrees (70% of all burns are domestic burns)

● 10 000 intakes in hospitals of which:

☛ 3500 persons treated in specialised burn centers (CTB)☛ 4000 persons excluded from CTB due to bad selection of hospital care

☛ 1000 persons pass away following their burns

Special burn after care centers

● 22 burn centers (CTB)

● 19 centers of functional re-education● 220 specialized beds only available in CTB

In France: