Jaipur, India
Thalassemia cure in Rajasthan
In 2012, the South East Asia Institute for Thalassemia (SEAIT) was created in collaboration with Manav Sewa Sangh Prem Niketan Hospital in Jaipur, the first center to offer a definitive cure, i.e. bone marrow transplantation in Rajasthan, a state with 60 million of people and several thousand thalassaemic children. The Cure2Children team of 6 doctors and 4 specialist nurses worked with the local medical team over a six-week period performing the first 3 bone marrow transplants. As of November 2022, a total of 165 matched to partially matched (haploidentical) family donor transplants have been performed by the local team with a 70% cure.