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Prof Yunus Signs MoU with Cure2Chjldren

Bone Marrow Transplantation Centre to be set up

Metro Desk
Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, chairman of Grameen I lealth Care Trust, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Cure2Children Foundation of Italy recently to establish a Bone Marrow Iransplantation Centre for patients with thalassemia in Bangladesh, says a press release.
Cure2Children Foundation was represented by Lawrence Faulkner, founder and scientific coordinator, Pietro Sodani, consultant hematologist and BMT expert, and Eugenio La Mesam, chief executive officer.
The MoU is aimed at setting up a social business in Bangladesh to start bone marrow transplantation - the only way to cure thalassemia. A committee of Grameen Health Care Trust, Cure2Children, Thalassemia Associations and local professionals have prepared an action plan to evaluate different options to start the
first transplant within the first halfof20IO.
"Bangladesh needs improvement in all aspects of healthcare. Through Grameen we are trying to address some health issues, which need immediate action,” said Prof Yunus.
"We can protect children from thalassemia by making people aware of how toavoidit. Bangladesh is a country with high density of thalassemia carriers, " he said.
"It is very important that we let people know how the disease spreads and how it can be reduced and stopped completely. In the mean time, we want to create facilities for bone marrow transplantation in an affordable way for children who are already suffering from thalassemia," he added.
Eugenio La Mesa said. "Our main goal is to create with Grameen Health Care Trust a financially self-sustainable social business for Bone
Marrow Transplantation with the potential to be easily scalable, both in Bangladesh and in other countries."
Since the only way to defeat thalassemia is through prevention, the parties plan to raise public awareness about the disease, and to evaluate the possibility of establishing screening facilities throughout the country with the support of Grameen.
"Combining the know-how of Grameen Health Care, Cure 2 ChiIdren and Bangladeshi professionals in thalassemia, we envisage that ten years from now there will be no more thalassemia in Bangladesh; that is thalassemia will join the fist of extinct diseases along with polio and small pox.” said Eugenio La Mesa.
Cure2Children will provide the medical knowledge, knowhow transfer and training while Grameen Health Care Trust will provide local knowledge and networks in rural Bangladesh.