Sahara Hospital to start bone-marrow transplant
September 24th, 2011 - 10:24 pm ICT by IANSLucknow, Sep 24 (IANS) The city-based Sahara Hospital Saturday announced it has started its bone marrow transplantation programme.
The two-year-old 350-bed hospital also plans to establish an advanced centre for stem cell transplant and cellular therapy and an umbilical cord blood bank.
“We will provide the expensive transplantation procedure at an easily affordable cost,” hospital director H.P. Kumar told mediapersons here.
He said Sahara Hospital will be among the select few centres in the country with bone marrow transplant facility.
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