Thalassemia Centre
Thalassemia is a dreaded genetic disease and this is almost incurable disease. What this disease is! What it causes!
This disease is inherited through defective genes, which are responsible for making defective hemoglobin in blood carried by both parents and there is no other sources through which your child becomes afflicted. The carriers of this disease are as good as normal person, there is no expression of the disease in carrier state.
A thalassemic child in majority of the cases requires blood transfusion from six months of age or less than 6 months and continues its requirement of transfusion at the interval of 15 days till he/she survives. This is an end-organ disease means all the organs in the body will be affected.
To bring your offspring to be in good condition you have to seek regular advice from a good hematologist (doctor) in the city and the maintenance cost of this comes to be nearly Rs. 15000/- per month.
Occurrence of this disease and carriers are more among the different communities namely Gujraties, Sindhis, and Bengalees. This knowledge has been drawn through different surveys conducted in the country.
Look ! Nearly 50 – 60% of the total donated blood is served to the thalassemic and a huge money is being spend just to maintain them properly. Moreover parents of the thalassemic child finally become socially, mentally and financially downing one.
So, think of this many a more times but you must go for thalassemia carrier screening. The only way to avoid in the birth of thalassemia baby is, a carrier should not marry a carrier. Even if a carrier has married a carrier, not to worry, go to a hematologist and he/she will help you.
Lions Day Care Transfusion Centre is running from the year 2001. Now we have a 10 Bedded, well equipped Transfusion Centre at Lions Den, which caters to almost 150 patients.
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The Transfusion Centre at the Lions Den is a safe place for Thalassaemic patients to have blood transfusion. With this new facility we have been able to provide service to those in need. We are even ready to run this centre in two shifts to expand our outreach.
Many patients have to take more than one unit of blood at a time and sometimes have to do this weekly. As you can well imagine it puts a huge strain on the finances of the parents. Those who cannot afford the treatment are provided financial support.