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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.

Nani Vavdi is a very small village near the Morbi city in the western part of Gujarat.

From definition to identification to prevention,the Sankalp Patrika, in the last 3 months has carried some extremely important articles describing aspects related to adverse donor reactions. Although all our efforts must be focussed on providing the right ambience for blood donation, there are situations when one or more adverse events do occur.

India is the world’s biggest provider of cheap and affordable medicines to developing world. Of course, most countries don't like that! This debate over global drug pricing one controversial issues between developed While poorer nations maintain they have a moral obligation make cheaper, generic drugs available their masses, pharmaceutical companies claim that profits reap are essential research.

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.

In the last few years tremendous progress has been made to provide reliable and accessible cure from thalassemia. Patients who have a fully matched donors are getting cured with high success rates. Nevertheless, the families who do not have a match continue to wait for the right curative therapy.

Sankalp took birth in a hostel room - bringing to an end a tormenting helplessness which arose when a person lost his life waiting for blood in Bangalore. The young organisation took baby steps in the common spaces of the college premises after the regular college hours. Meetings happened under the trees and sometimes at the tea shops outside the nearby hospital where the incident had occurred that night.

Though Pooja was the first child in the family of Gopal bhai and Jasu ben, Khushi brought more happiness to the family as one can always find a sweet smile on her small face. She was born to the GopalBhai family which was living in a small village called Jamjodhpur in Gujarat.