Sankalp’s SAFE BLOOD Program - Information for Blood Donors
A leap forward in blood safety for potential transplant patients
Bone Marrow Transplant
Enrolling More Children for Bone Marrow Transplant HLA Typing Across The Country
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Bone marrow transplant unit opens at MY Hospital
For the first time in Madhya Pradesh, a bone-marrow transplant unit has been set up at MY Hospital Indore. At present, the transplant of children with Thalassemia will be conducted. later this facility will be made available to children suffering from Sickle Cell Anaemia and leukamia.
Fertility sparing cure from thalassemia - now possible
Thalassemia is an inherited genetic blood disorder that does not allow the production of normal healthy red cells.
Bone Marrow Transplantation unit managed by Sankalp is now a reality
A new hope, a new silver lining has surfaced for little children suffering from the pain and burden of thalassemia. A new Bone Marrow Transplantation unit (BMT) with an exclusive focus towards treating thalassemia children has been jointly established by Sankalp India Foundation, Cure2Children and People Tree Hospitals at Bengaluru.
The Three Musketeers are Back
Three children supported by Sankalp India Foundation have completed their bone marrow transplants successfully
They kept us on our toes, made us walk the unknown territory, pushed us to performance levels we had never known before, took us on a roller coaster ride of emotions ranging from happiness, sorrow, fear, hope, and undiluted inner peace.
We are offering free HLA typing
At Sankalp India Foundation, We firmly believe that each child must be given an option for complete cure irrespective of their financial status. The HLA test is the first step which determines whether the sibling can be a matched donor to the child suffering from thalassemia. The cost of HLA typing in India is around Rs.
The road ahead: Death of professor of Indian origin in-spite of seven donors
The question that we must ask ourselves: Are we selecting the right donors?
On 30th October 2013, Dr Nalini Ambady, a Stanford professor of Indian origin succumbed to leukaemia afte
Real Issues confronting the Bone Marrow Transplants in India
Recently doctors in Chennai have successfully transplanted a child with cancer from his mother's stem cells in the first Haploidentical transplant of the country. This news definitely brings cheers to the numerous families who are suffering from one or the other disorder that can be cured only by transplants. In India, it is extremely difficult to find a donor for a person who needs a transplant because of the very limited number of people who have enrolled so far in bone marrow registries.