When requested to share her views regarding training sessions conducted over 6 weeks in Bangalore and Indore, Elizabeth Sebastian, the staff nurse from Indore said:
Little Ronak walked in last year on 31 March 2017 into our Sankalp-CIMS Centre for BMT, Ahmedabad.
April 2018 brings to Sankalp the discharge of the 100th patient who received bone marrow transplantation at one of our two centres in Bangalore or Ahmedabad. This is an important milestone in the journey of the organisation towards a thalassemia free India.
Ramesh was earning his bread by working as a private driver in Mumbai. He and his wife Adeshwari, lived in a chawl in Mumbai. Within a year of their marriage, they were blessed with a baby girl who was named Jayshree. Within few months of her birth, it was clear that Jayshree was not growing normally and seemed to have some medical problems.
Sankalp-People Tree Centre for Pediatric BMT is happy to enable Ms Elizabeth Arku from BMT Ghana to receive 20 days of intense training. BMT Ghana is planning to setup what is probably going to be the very first BMT centre in Sub-Saharan Africa later in 2018.
Sankalp is in collaboration with Dr Prabhakar Kore KLE Hospital and Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum to help strengthen the the delivery of care to the thalassemia patients. Jai Shiv Shakti Thalassemia Day Care Centre has provided immense relief to the patients.
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.
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.
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.
Bone marrow transplantation continues to be the only cure from thalassemia.
Manish and Meena met in a family function, fell in love, got married and their sweet married life started. Manish was a photographer by his profession. Since childhood he was fond of doing photography.
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.
