Beyond fully matched related donor transplants - Team Sankalp goes Haplo to help children
The month of December saw yet another milestone for Team Sankalp. We took two strides forward in our mission to give life a better chance.
HLA typing paves the way for cure from thalassemia in Madhya Pradesh
In December 2017, 3 camps were organised in Indore, Bhopal and Gwalior by Government of Madhya Pradesh together with Team Sankalp. As per the memorandum of understanding signed between Sankalp India Foundation and MY Hospital, Government of Madhya Pradesh and Sankalp, we organised HLA typing.
1st CME on Thalassemia Organised at RDT Ananthpur
On 3rd December 2017, Department of Pediatrics, Rural Development Trust, Ananthpur organised the 1st CME on Thalassemia. Attended by pediatricians from Ananthpur and nearby districts, the event was very well received and productive.
DKMS - Germany, Sankalp India Foundation - Bangalore and Cure2Children Foundation - Italy come together to find ways to increase access to cure from thalassemia
On 9-10th January 2018, we at Sankalp were honoured and excited to host a delegation from DKMS Germany including Dr Thomas Klingebiel, a very well known person in the pediatric BMT and hemato-oncology community.
Low-cost matched sibling bone marrow transplant for standard-risk thalassemia in a limited-resource setting - Published in PHOJ
Bone marrow transplantation continues to be the only cure from thalassemia.
Can inequity in healthcare be bridged in LMICs – Multicentre experience from thalassemia day care centres in India - published in PHOJ
Delivering equitable healthcare is a global challenge. There are certain groups of patients which continue to perform poorly on clinical indicators compared to other patients. Gender, socio-economic status, distance from treatment centre and parental education are well established factors which influence the treatment outcomes.
Experience of a volunteer
I am Deepak, a student at IIIT Delhi, and I volunteered for Sankalp in December 2017. I came to know about Sankalp through my father, who has worked with Sankalp.
