BLK Super Speciality Hospital achieved another milestone by crossing 1,000 bone marrow transplants. BLK Centre for BMT has emerged as Asia’s largest BMT unit and has completed the fastest 1,000 bone marrow transplants in northern India. Few patients who were part of this decade long journey marked their presence on the occasion. Credited for performing hundreds of high risks transplants, Dr Dharma Choudhary, Senior Consultant and Director, Centre for Hemato-oncology & Bone Marrow Transplant, BLK Super Speciality Hospital said, “With bone marrow transplants, we are successfully curing incurable diseases like leukaemia, myeloma, thalassemia and also improving the quality of life for the patients. It has emerged as an innovative option to fight critical and life-threatening diseases. Performing a large number of transplants provides us with an edge to make the life-saving medical procedure safer and more effective for patients.”
Achieving a milestone by performing over 1,000 bone marrow transplants during the last decade, BLK Super Specialty Hospital’s Centre for Bone Marrow Transplant has also released the data related to types of transplant procedures and treatment of critical diseases such as leukaemia, thalassemia and myeloma. Data shows the majority of patients who underwent BMT were suffering from leukaemia, thalassemia and myeloma.
