{"id":15910,"date":"2014-01-16T13:36:39","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T08:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=15910"},"modified":"2014-01-16T13:36:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T08:06:39","slug":"stem-cell-donation-drive-on-january-18th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/stem-cell-donation-drive-on-january-18th\/","title":{"rendered":"Stem cell donation drive on January 18th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>#EnteThiruvananthapuram:<\/strong> With an aim to create wide and diverse database of potential stem cell donors in India, Datri a non-profit organization is hosting a &#8216;Blood stem cell donation drive&#8217; in the city on Saturday January 18th at TJM Hall, LMS Compound.<\/p>\n<p>Datri is running short of time and is need of your help. The donation drive is setup in short notice to find stem cells for Jeson Varghese Chelleth (32) who was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia\u00a0 and\u00a0 Nini Monsi, a mother of 2 children.<\/p>\n<p>Stem cells have the ability to grow into any of the body\u2019s more than 200 cell types. Maximum cells are found in the bone marrow. The most perfect matches occur with two people from the same ethnic background, as tissue types are inherited. Siblings have a 25% chance of having a match and the chances of any two unrelated individuals matching are between 1 in 100 to 1 in a million. This drive is the first step of a two step process where you can register yourselves into the Centralized registry.<\/p>\n<p>Donation is simple and is similar to donating blood. You can be a participant in this drive by just giving a small sample of your saliva from Cheek Swab. In the peripheral blood stem cell donation method, blood is donated, post which, Stem cells are harvested outside and your bone is not touched. The potential donor&#8217;s data will remain in the Centralized Registry till the age of 55 years. If a match is found, Datri will facilitate the actual donation of the stem cells. There is no cost to the donor during the actual donation.<\/p>\n<p>More than 3 lakh people in India suffer from diseases like Leukaemia, Thalassaemia and Aplastic Anemias and 85% of cancer patients in Luekaemia fail to respond to Chemotherapy. But Stem cells transplant, also known as Bone marrow transplant increases the chances of cure for these patients by upto 80%.\u00a0 However, due to very few registered donors available in India, the possibility of finding a match for an Indian anywhere in the world is very bleak. Datri is working towards creating a wide and diverse database of potential donors that can be accessed by any patient, living anywhere in the world, in need of a stem cell transplant.<\/p>\n<p>Date: Saturday January 18th 2014,<\/p>\n<p>Time: 11 AM to 7 PM<\/p>\n<p>Location: TJM Hall, CSI Mateer Memorial, Church LMS Compound<\/p>\n<p>Contact Suresh John Jacob: 9633277947<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#EnteThiruvananthapuram: With an aim to create wide and diverse database of potential stem cell donors in India, Datri a non-profit organization is hosting a &#8216;Blood stem cell donation drive&#8217; in the city on Saturday January 18th at TJM Hall, LMS Compound. Datri is running short of time and is need of your help. The donation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":15915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[452],"class_list":["post-15910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}