Parkway Healthcare group opens six consultatikon centres

Bangalore, June 9 (UNI) Singapore-based Parkway Healthcare Group has opened six free consultation centres in the country for children suffering leukamia to get access to medical services with latest stem cell transplant therapy.

Dr Anselm Chi-wai Lee, an expert on cancer and blood disease of children told reporters here today that it had set up the International Patient Assistance Centres in New Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Patna and Ludhiana to extend the service to every person who seeks professional medical referral and consultation.

Stating that children, with leukemia or other cancers, get benefit from this latest transplantion of hematopoitic stem cells, he said ''We can beat cancer with this contempory medicine and there is a hope for the future".

Dr Lee, who is the first person to transplant bone marrow in leukemia patients and transplant the original cell from umblical cords successfully, said that one in every 500 children would develop cancer before their 18th birthday.

A 70 per cent of the children diagnosed with cancer could be cured with this treatment, he said. .

UNI