Sankalp India Foundation had organized a Blood Bank Meet at NIMHANS on 17th November, 2017. The meet aimed at improving the quality of voluntary blood donation drives within the city of Bangalore by fostering education and the exchange of ideas among professionals in this field.
The most essential aspect of caring for severe thalassemia syndromes (ST) with the inability to spontaneously maintain haemoglobin levels more than 7 gm/dl is a good blood transfusion service.
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.
