Doctors are all set to carry out bone marrow transplant at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital within a week after Bangladesh's first-ever centre with such capability was inaugurated on Sunday.
Published : 20 Oct 2013, 02:43 PM
Health minister AFM Ruhal Haque unveiled the plaque of the sophisticated unit in a milestone event and said it has opened ‘a new horizon in Bangladesh’s medical science’.
“Don’t do any short-cuts. Follow strictly what you learnt in your training in USA. This is very high-tech procedure. If you deviate, you will fall behind,” he told its trained personnel.
The centre has been set up on the ninth floor of the new DMCH building, which was remodelled, with the help of the Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).
MGH trained up its nurses and doctors while the government spent about Tk 200million for the whole project.
Centre in-charge Prof MA Khan said they were expecting to start the first transplant on October 26 -- an autologous bone marrow transplant in which one’s own bone marrow is used.
“It’ll depend on the bone marrow collection. We have already started the collection,” he said .
Khan said they had selected 10 patients suffering from cancer –multiple myeloma and lymphoma— and six of them were being prepared for the first set of transplants.