Tales from inside a burns ward: Kitchen accidents that aren’t always accidents

On the fifth floor of the

Burns and Plastic Surgery

Block at Delhi’s AIIMS, each bed holds a story of suffering—and sometimes survival. Some women are nursing raw wounds from LPG cylinder blasts, some from cooking ‘accidents’. The wounds are visible—red, raw, stitched, grafted—but the deeper trauma is not. Every patient carries their scars on the slow, grinding road to recovery.