Month: October 2017

Policies on Thalassemia across the world. India is the Thalassemia capital of the world with 40 million carriers and over 1, 00,000 patients. But still there is no prevention and control programme at the national level. NGO’s and other private sector have taken the initiative to provide better health care. The National Policy on Thalassemia …

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As we already know what Thalassemia patients go through, it was very important​ to give rights and benefits to them in order to support these patients. After years of activism, a law was passed where Thalassemia was included under the person with disability act. Now as you already know, Thalassemia is a lifelong disease and …

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