File photo of Super Specialty Hospital, Indore and bone marrow transplant.
Highlights
Free treatment is available with the help of schemes and institutions. Transplant in a private hospital costs Rs 35 lakh. Transplants of two adult patients have been done in the hospital.
Vinay Yadav, Naiduniya Indore (Haploidentical Transplant). Patients in Indore are now getting modern facilities. The facility of haplo transplant for adult patients has started in the state’s first government super specialty hospital. With this, now patients of all age groups along with children are getting the facility of transplant.
Till now bone marrow transplant could be done only after 100% blood match, but through this, transplant can be done even after 50% match. Patients of leukemia, chronic thalassemia, blood cancer, anemia etc. are getting benefit in this.
Two patients underwent transplant
So far, transplants of two adult patients have been done in the hospital. The cost of this in a private hospital is Rs 35 lakh, but in SSH, patients are getting free facility with the help of government schemes and institutions.
Hematologist Dr. Akshay Lahoti said that for transplant we match blood groups, if only half matches then the patient’s risk increases. In bone marrow transplant, if the blood group does not match then transplant does not take place, but in this if half matches, then also transplant can be done. For this, like blood group, HLA (Human Leukocyte Antigen) is matched.
In this, we match the genes of the patient and the donor. Earlier, haplo transplants were not done much, but now new medicines and procedures have come, due to which it is now being done.
This is haplo transplant
Generally in bone marrow transplant, complete matching of donor’s and patient’s cells is essential because if donor’s cells are even slightly different then patient’s body will not accept them, but in the new technology, only specific cells are matched and with the help of a modern machine, they are extracted and put in patient’s body.
Haplo transplant is like only two out of 10 full matches are found between the patient and the donor, but haplo match is not difficult. Haplo means half matching. If HLA test is done then it is easy to match with parents, children, siblings.
In this, the damaged cells are transplanted with healthy stem cells of the donor. The cost of transplant in a private hospital is Rs 35 lakh and the cost of medicines also reaches around Rs 35 lakh. In such a situation, patients had to go to private hospitals or other states, now the facility is available here.
Benefits to patients of these diseases
Those patients suffering from blood related diseases like leukemia, blood cancer, aplastic anemia, sclerotic anemia, thalassemia etc. whose blood is not fully matched get the benefit of haplo transplant. Till now, transplant of a patient of aplastic anemia and acute leukemia has been done in the hospital.
Children are getting the benefit of transplant since one year
Chacha Nehru Hospital Superintendent Dr. Preeti Malpani said that children are getting the facility of haplo transplant since last one year. Till now transplant of about 12 children has been done. This includes children from all over the country. The blood irradiator machine which recently came to MY Hospital will also prove helpful in all transplants.