World Hemophilia Day,17th April 2015

An everyday hero......real life, real strength, real courage, real story!

Last year I met a wonderful lady, an amazing mother, a wife and I know many other roles that were hidden inside her. I was waiting with my son and husband in the Haematology Dept. of CMC Hospital Vellore, that was May 2014. I saw a very simple and pretty young lady, skinny, well groomed in a very simple but pefectly pinned and draped saree. She was talking in hindi(manageable)to the hemophilia coordinator n was finding difficulty in conveying things to him. I could see that she didn't know English either, so I stepped in to help her out. After that we introduced ourselves. She told me that she came all the way from North east of India for her son's treatment and had spent already a month over there. That day nothing more than that we spoke to each other as we both had our appointments n engagements and moreover I was in a different state of mind as we had gone their for our son's checkup. We were there in the hospital for few days so we passed each other 2-3 times...

Treatment Available! But not in the reach of common man in India

Genetic disorders are rare conditions that are given a low public health priority in India , even though these account for significant suffering of patients and their family members. There is no insurance and no free or affordable treatment! India is the second most populous country with almost 1.2 billion people in the world but the numbers of PWH (people with hemophilia) on paper/registered are very few i.e.16000 approximately. Incidence of hemophilia is 1 in 10,000. So a small calculation would give you the idea of number of PWH undiagnosed yet in India i.e. 1,00,000 approximately. That’s a huge number! India is among one of the lowest using AHF countries. The extremely low per capita use of treatment product, despite having the second or third largest number of global patients with haemophilia A, illustrates the large treatment gap that exists in the country. Due to lack of awareness many PWH don’t even know what exactly they are suffering from and are treated for something e...

Hemophilia with inhibitors

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