ISLAMABAD: World Thalassemia Day is celebrated every year on May 8th for making people to become aware of the Thalassemia Disease in the World.
The day is being observed to create awareness on the preventive measures, cure and also to avoid it’s spread form one person to another.
World Thalassemia Day makes the people to come across every idea and plans to remove and cure the Thalassemia Disease from the World.
Thalassemia Day is used to make the people to do pre-marriage test for decreasing the issues of genetic from the families.
Thalassemia Disease is a type of Blood Disorder with an autosomal recessive Blood problem by which people suffer a lot from one generation to the next generation.
It is type of Disorder by which Blood of the people gets weak and also destroys the `Red Blood Cells’. It makes the negative effects of the Hemoglobin Formation in the body causing mild anemia.
It makes the people to get every type of problems like Bone weakness, illnesses of the Cardiovascular, Iron overload, Liver, Bones, Forehead, Cheeks and Spleen Enlargement, Jaundice, Puberty delation etc.
Types of Thalassemia included Beta Thalassemia, Delta Thalassemia and Thalassemia of Alpha. There is also a Mixture of many Hemoglobinopathies like Hemoglobin S, E, D and C.
Thalassemia is also treated by the Transfusion of the Blood, Vitamins Supplement of the B Group, Blood as well as Therapy of the Blood Chelation.
In a message on World Thalassemia Day, Managing Director (MD) Pakistan Bait ul Mal (PBM) Barrister Abid Waheed Sheikh said this day should be taken as a provoking factor for feeling our shared responsibility towards minimizing the difficulties of poor thalassemia patients in the country.
For a poor Thalassemia patient, the cost of doctors’ fees, a course of drugs and transport to reach a treatment centre can be shocking, both for an individual and their relatives, he said.
The incumbent government believed in taking the concrete measures for providing maximum health care facilities to the vulnerable segments of the country.
By the grace of Almighty Allah, they have accomplished their duty to launch an outstanding Thalassemia Center in May, 2015, he stated.
With the ambition of equal access to quality healthcare for every poor patient with thalassemia and other hemoglobin disorders across the country, a state-of-the-art “Pakistan Thalassemia Treatment Center” has been effective in the federal capital, MD PBM said.
“Since its beginning a large number of poor patients from all over the country including AJ&K, Gilgit Baltistan and Northern Areas have been provided medical treatment free of charge.”
“We also collect blood for them and is transfused without having any blood in exchange. Equipped with the expert medical team and modern diagnostic lab, Pakistan Thalassemia centre is committed to provide excellent clinical and compassionate care free of charge to the deserving patients of thalassemia”, he informed.
This centre is also a ray of hope for the children with neglected backgrounds, orphans and less privileged who cannot afford the cost for the treatment of this serious disease.
It is also a satisfactory element that 28 percent of the total thalassemia patients in Pakistan have been benefitted from this thalassemia centre so far.
Appreciating the blood donors MD PBM said that those persons are role model for the nation who are saving precious lives with their gift of blood. (APP)