On December 9 2019, 47 tourists and guides were visiting the White Island volcano in New Zealand when it erupted. 

20 people were killed, and 26 were injured, and many Australians were among those numbers. 

Many of the injured suffered serious burns, and in the days after the eruption 13 Australians were flown to hospitals in Sydney and Melbourne for treatment. 

Six patients ended up in the Burns Unit at Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, a statewide burns service that was also treating burns victims from the bushfires.

On this week’s Please Explain Feature episode, Sydney Morning Herald Health Reporter, Rachel Clun will take you through the burns unit and you’ll get a glimpse of just what it takes to treat serious burns after a natural disaster