Blog’s

Raksha Bandhan, a festival that resonates with every corner of India, a celebration that encapsulates the profound connection between a brother and sister. It's not merely a thread tied around a wrist, but a pledge of love, care, and protection. However, for me,...

Life for Dr. Fazeela took a tragic turn after her husband, Dr. Abdul Shameem, passed away due to blood cancer. He was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) in March this year. His best chance of survival was a bone marrow transplant, for which a matching blood...

I have registered myself as a bone marrow donor, fully aware of the potential impact it can have on someone's life. When my own son, a promising engineering student, was diagnosed with blood cancer, our world turned upside down. We sought treatment at various esteemed...

"Sachin Kumar is a boy with immense grit and willpower, with a positive outlook to life, it is commendable on how a child who went through a major transplant did so well and came out with flying colors. “this is how Dr. Manas Kalra, Pediatric Hematologist , describes...

  I am Jhanvi Ghode from Kolhapur, Maharashtra. I am 14 years old and till a year back I would just tell people that I just want to survive. When I was three months old I was diagnosed with Thalassemia Major. We hail from a very humble background and for my...

I was just about a week-old at DATRI. As a newbie I was trying to understand my work and how to go about. This was when in the office one day, the Marketing and Communication team along with the HR called all the staff and announced that we were going to do an...

1.8 years ago my brother was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia with myeloid sarcoma, one of the rarest forms of AML.  He relapsed even after 7 cycles of chemotherapy!  When every door shuts, all you need is some light sneaking through the edges, just enough to...

Empanelment of transplant centre (TC) with DATRI is an essential process that ensures if a respective centre meets predefined criteria as per WMDA(World Marrow Donor Association) Standard 1.07. This evaluation process also ensures that the donation of...

An 11-year-old female patient with Thalassemia Major was referred to DATRI in Sep 2021 by a transplant centre (TC) physician for HLA matched blood stem donor search request for a transplant. Our search team did a preliminary search from our database and found a...

When I got the call informing me that I was found to be a stem cell match, I wasn’t entirely convinced. Was this a legitimate request, was there any commercial angle to this, would they take my bone marrow? I spoke to a colleague who had lost his wife to cancer – for...

First of all, I take this opportunity to congratulate Team DATRI for completing 1000 collections, which means they have given second chance to 1000 patients. This is absolutely a proud moment for DATRI and happy that I am part of this achievement. Below is my Blood...

I first came to know about DATRI Blood Stem Cell Donors Registry, when I was attending the awareness session which was organised by Aby Sam John and his team. Aby was leading the team that organized a stem cell donor registration drive at my organisation UST in Kochi,...

Have you ever heard of Thalassemia?  Thalassemia is a blood disorder involving lower-than-normal amounts of an oxygen-carrying protein. Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder characterised by less oxygen-carrying protein (haemoglobin) and fewer red blood cells in...