{"id":85046,"date":"2020-10-16T15:14:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T09:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=17968"},"modified":"2021-06-25T15:40:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T10:10:45","slug":"union-minister-launches-second-phase-of-thalassemia-bal-sewa-yojna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-launches-second-phase-of-thalassemia-bal-sewa-yojna\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Minister launches second phase of \u201cThalassemia Bal Sewa Yojna\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare launched the second phase of \u201cThalassemia Bal Sewa Yojna\u201d for the underprivileged Thalassemic patients.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojna:<\/strong> It was launched in 2017 with the aim to provide a one-time cure opportunity for Haemoglobinopathies like Thalassaemia and Sickle Cell Disease for patients who have a matched family donor.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Funded by: <\/strong>The scheme is a Coal India CSR funded Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation(HSCT) program.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beneficiary: <\/strong>The initiative aims to provide financial assistance to a total of 200 patients by providing a package cost not exceeding Rs. 10 lakhs per HSCT.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thalassemia: <\/strong>It is a chronic and genetic blood disorder due to which a patient\u2019s body cannot make enough hemoglobin leading to anemia.This disease is passed from parents to children through genes and people suffering from it require blood transfusions to survive.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation(HSCT): <\/strong>It is the transplantation of multipotent hematopoietic stem cells usually derived from bone marrow, peripheral blood, or umbilical cord blood.\n<ul>\n<li>It may be autologous (the patient&#8217;s own stem cells are used), allogeneic (the stem cells come from a donor) or syngeneic (from an identical twin).<\/li>\n<li>It is most often performed for patients with certain cancers of the blood, thalassemia or bone marrow such as multiple myeloma or leukemia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare launched the second phase of \u201cThalassemia Bal Sewa Yojna\u201d for the underprivileged Thalassemic patients. &nbsp; Facts: Thalassemia Bal Sewa Yojna: It was launched in 2017 with the aim to provide a one-time cure opportunity for Haemoglobinopathies like Thalassaemia and Sickle Cell Disease for patients who have a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/union-minister-launches-second-phase-of-thalassemia-bal-sewa-yojna\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Union Minister launches second phase of \u201cThalassemia Bal Sewa Yojna\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[2181],"class_list":["post-85046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-thalassemia-bal-sewa-yojana","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700902633},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}