We are happy to share that 5 abstracts by the Sankalp-Cure2Children Network were selected to be presented at the 61st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Haematology held in Orlando-USA in November 2019. Dr Lawrence Faulkner, our Medical Director and Dr Pallavi Mehta represented our team at ASH this year.
In 2013, one morning a few weeks after the new day care cent with Rashtrotthana Parishat started, a 24-year-old girl was brought into the day care supported by 2 people. She could not walk and her skin tone seemed abnormal - thanks to the heavy iron overload.
As we all celebrated the Republic Day with high patriotic spirit, there was a group of Volunteers from Healing Touch Society, who have stood out to make a difference!
Thanks to the generous support from DKMS, HLA typing which usually costs a significant amount is made very affordable for several families in India. Through their support, Sankalp has been actively identifying candidates for BMT across the country. Over the last 3 months, nearly 500 HLA samples have been collected. Here is a snapshot of HLA typing events held at different places.
Sankalp India Foundation has been strategically planning the blood donation drives to meet the critical hour of blood shortages both in the summer and winter months, instead of clustering the blood donation camps on the days of national importance or when the city has enough stocks. The winters of this year, has also been very challenging, specially the last week of Dec and the first week of Jan'2019.
