Managing sickle cell patients in hospital involves giving the patient intravenous to help the C-cells that have clumped together to flow easily in the blood vessels. Increase of anemia, blood transfusion is done and the children are also regularly given anti-malarial drugs to prevent frequent attacks of malaria, since they are prone to infections. A […]
Millions of people around the world but especially in poor countries of Africa, Latin America and Asia are fond of asking traditional questions: is blood transfusion safe? Can one get HIV/AIDS through blood donation? In east Africa where the head offices of our media house are located, people still ask the same questions. It […]
James Kafeero, an oncologist at the Uganda Cancer Institute in Mulago Hospital (Uganda) says that risk factors that lead people to contract leukemia are as follows. Having relatives or being in company of people who have or have had leukemia, people with underlying genetic disorders such as downs’ syndrome, previous exposure to ionizing radiations like […]