GH gets bone marrow transplant unit

Funded entirely by the Chief Minister’s Health Insurance Scheme (CMCHIS), the unit will serve to benefit cancer/haematological disorder patients. A sum of Rs 6.89 crore has been sanctioned on a loan basis and released from the CMCHIS corpus fund to establish the unit, stated a release issued by the Health Department. 

In the state, so far, 473 cases have been approved for the Transplant under the scheme. While the unit can not only serve to provide bone marrow transplant to the patients, it can also serve as a self-sustaining unit through the money earned from the CMCHIS claims, the release stated.

The Unit has been set up under the Department of Haematology at the hospital. “Poor people and patients in need can avail of free treatment for blood cancers such as leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma and bone marrow disorders like plastic anaemia and the like. These treatments generally cost over Rs 30 lakh in private hospitals,” stated the Health Minister, encouraging patients to come forward to avail of the same.