Sankalp News

Harshith was 3-year-old when we transplanted him in 2016. A lot went into bringing him in for bone marrow transplant.

This is story of a family who fall into the economically weaker section of our society. Raju Hebbali and Ganga Raju Hebbali from Dharwad district were married to each other within the close family circle.  Raju was worked as a coolie who earning a very minimal amount and Ganga was a homemaker with no earnings.

3 months ago, we received a call from one of the day care centres where we had teamed up with a blood bank to provide systematic and holistic care. While on one side were 2 people from Sankalp, on the other side there was the entire thalassemia day care team, some patients and their parents and staff from the blood bank.

We share the story of 6 blood requests which were handled between 17th Jan and 2nd Feb 2020 by Sankalp's Emergency Team.

29 Jan 2019 Press Information Bureau - Government of India: The Union Cabinet has approved the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill, 2020 to amend the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971. The amendment has increased the current limit of 16 weeks for termination of pregnancy to 24 weeks of gestation.