World Thalassemia Day
World Thalassemia Day is celebrated every year on May 8th to commemorate Thalassemia victims and to encourage those who struggle to live with the disease.
In the current corona pandemic, we should not forget the other fatal diseases. Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder that causes your body to have less hemoglobin than normal.
The only treatment is management with blood transfusions and chelation therapy.
Also clinical trials are going on for use of plasma therapy to treat Corona patients.
Plasma is a straw colored liquid which is extracted from blood and is rich water, salts, enzymes, antibodies and other proteins and helps in treatment of various disseases.
Blood donation can be done after interval of 3 months and plasma donation can be done twice within a week
So donate blood and save lives.
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