Thalassemia Prevention, Management and Cure

Making 20 Thalassemia Day Care Centres Happen

Ahmedabad Inauguration

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Thalassemia Prevention, Management and Cure

Last month we had 205 patient visits with 276 transfusions at Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health. The average pre-transfusion hemoglobin was 8.3gm/dl and the estimated post transfusion hemoglobin was 12.1 gm/dl. At Samraksha we had 164 patient visits with 205 transfusions.

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Bone Marrow Transplant in India: The wasted opportunity for cure

Bone marrow transplantation celebrated the completion of 43 years this year[1]. In last four decades BMT has established itself as the only definitive cure for a number of blood disorders. In India, the BMT program is 30 years old and the first transplant dates back to 1983 which was done at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai[2].

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