Doctors at New Delhi's Hospital named Sir Ganga Ram Hospital did India's first unrelated stem cell transplant on a just 1-year-old Pakistani boy on 15th March. Unfortunately Shaheer Imran had familial HLH and it is a rare disorder where the body's immune system over reacts occasionally and then starts eating up its own defence cells.
The Pakistani infant was in instant need of a bone marrow transplant. But since he did not have any of the siblings and had not a single donor in the family who matched his profile, doctors called to the Reliance Cord Bank in Mumbai.
Luckily, two cord blood units matching his profile were procured from the Reliance Cord bank. Cord blood is obtained from the umbilical cord of a newborn and is used to treat various blood-related and heritable disorders, as it contains stem cells.
First unit, with a 5/6 match, did not have enough cell dose, which means there were not enough cells capable of reproducing. To remain on the safe side, the doctors transplanted the other unit (with 4/6 match) as well.
"We just required making sure that if one unit doesn't work properly, the other one did," said by Doctor Anupam Sachdeva, senior consultant, department of paediatrics, Mr. Ganga Ram. It cost Rs 2.5 lakh to procure each cord blood unit, and the whole procedure cost the family around Rs 17 lakh. In the United States of America, the same procedure would have cost around Rs 2.5 crore which is more than 15 time higher than India.
The relation of India and Pakistan have a long and very complicated history background with each other. Truly speaking, India and Pakistan simultaneously became independent country from Britain in 1947. When British people left India, it was supposed to be divided the country into two parts. It was decided that the area that consists 75% or more Muslims would be the part of Pakistan and the rest of the part India. But unfortunately, this proposal did not include the Princely States, one of which was Kashmir. The Princely were left at liberty to decide their own future whether they want to be the part of Pakistan, part of India, or just want to remain as a separate state (Sloan). At that time, The Maharaja of Kashmir named Hari Singh Dogra, decided that Kashmir will neither be part of India nor Pakistan. In the mean while, Pakistan had also sent some tribal Lhakars to discuss to Kashmir about their decision of autonomy. Then Indian government realized Pakistan's action as a sign of invasion and then Indian Government also sent their troops to help defend the state of Jammu and Kashmir.
India Pakistan Tension after Mumbai Attack
Indian and Pakistani soldiers have always stamped each other feet and they postured in goose step at the time when they lower their flags every evening at their border post between the both India and Pakistan. The body language has changed totally, now we can watch more aggressive as talks of war are going around. In this photo, Pakistani soldier in black uniform and the Indian border guards use to shake hands during the "Beating the Retreat" ceremony at the Pakistan and India joint border check post of Wagah Border near Lahore city of Pakistan. The Tensions between both nuclear-armed Pakistan and India have risen up high over the deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai on 26th December 2008. Indian are blaming that they have got some proof that suggest that Paksitan has supported Terrorsits Group but Pakistan has denied it totally and added that Pakistan is also the victim of Terrorism. The Pakistan Government has promised to cooperate with Indian Government, but has also remarked that it has yet to share any evidence with it.
Here is an Youtube Video of India Pakistan Tension at Wagah Border.
Pakistan Birthday : The Partition of India ---------------------------------------------- The World has seen the birth of a new Islamic Republic country called as "Pakistan" on 14th August 1947. The very next day India won its freedom from British rule after almost 350 years of British rule in India. British people came to India for business purpose and they started their first big company in Calcutta as "East India Company" they started ruling all parts of the India. Before Independence, Calcutta (now Kolkata) was the capital of India but now it's New Delhi. British left India divided in two parts - India and Pakistan. The two countries were distributed on the basis of religion (i.e Hindu and Muslims), with India as a secular one and Pakistan as an Islamic state.
It's a still big debate that whether the partition of India and Pakistan was done too soon and whether it was wise or not. Everyone and everyone country did their best to stop the conflict between India and Pakistan. British divided India in two parts but unfortunately they did not resolve the border issues and causing three wars between two countries. Those three were occured in the year 1965, 1971 and 1999 Kargil War causing thousand of soldiers from both the countries died.
Doctors at New Delhi's Hospital named Sir Ganga Ram Hospital did India's first unrelated stem cell transplant on a just 1-year-old Pakistani boy on 15th March. Unfortunately Shaheer Imran had familial HLH and it is a rare disorder where the body's immune system over reacts occasionally and then starts eating up its own defence cells.
