NH Bengaluru recently visited the society and have extended to conduct free BMT every week for Thalassemic children under the care of the society
Thalassaemia Sickle Cell Society Hyderabad and Narayana Health (NH) have joined hands to bring to reality the dream of Thalassemia Free Telangana.
TSCS announced that the society is one more step nearer to its goal of treating every thalassaemia patient and making Telangana thalassaemia- free state. A team of Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) Specialists from NH Bengaluru recently visited the society and have extended to conduct free BMT every week for Thalassemic children under the care of the society.
The services of the Society (TSCS) were recognised by NH and world renowned Dr Devi Shetty of NH along with world-famous BMT specialist Dr Sunil Bhatt, BMT head of NH Benguluru, awarded the society by giving a memento to the President of the Society Chandrakant Agrawal who highlighted the services of the TSCS in the eradication of thalassemia.
Agarwal said, “We are honoured to join hands with Narayana Health to provide BMT to thalassaemia patients. At TSCS we have been providing free treatment for all thalassaemia patients. Telangana Govt has also been helping thalassemia patients cover it under Aarogyashree scheme. Thalassemia is a lethal, genetic blood disorder, very little known to the general public but afflicting thousands of children for no fault of theirs and to just to survive they have to undergo blood transfusion every 15 days and have to undergo unimaginable suffering for a lifetime and only cure for the same is BMT which is a very costly (more than Rs 15 lakh) and difficult procedure undertaken by a few super speciality hospitals only. NH is recognised globally for the same and they have tied up with TSCS to do one BMT every week free of cost under the CSR initiative of Electronic Mart (I), and other philanthropists. It is a great achievement in the sphere of saving the most precious human lives and each one of us living in Telangana can feel proud of this marvellous initiative.”
