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• Project Pakistan: visit to Badin

  

  Badin is a semi-rural city of approximately 150,000 inhabitants, 200 km from Karachi. We visit the Thalassemia Care Centre of Badin, discuss our project with Dr. Haroon Manon, the centre coordinator. We meet almost twenty families and I am very impressed how well this children are cared for.

• Transplant network in Pakistan

  Thalassemia major is the most common life-threatening genetic disease. Even though long-term supportive care with regular red cell transfusion and intensive chelation therapy may prolong life-expectancy to the fourth decade of life, bone marrow transplantation remains the only curative option.

• Project Pakistan: the Shifa International Hospital

  Shifa International Hospital is probably the best private hospital in the capital. It has been around for 15 years and was founded by physicians who returned from training in the US.

• World Thalassemia Day

  May 8 is World Thalassemia Day. This day is celebrated by thalassemia organizations around the world, and gives them an opportunity to increase awareness about this important genetic disease.