In a significant mile-stone, Saylani Blood Bank & Thalassemia Center has achieved groundbreaking results, with 73 chil-dren under their care no longer requiring blood transfusions.
These children have not needed transfusions for over two years, according to Saylani’s founder and chairman, Maulana Muhammad Bashir Farooq Qadri, who shared this news during a media briefing at Saylani Blood Bank & Thalassemia Center in Gulshan-e-Iqbal on Thursday. Present at the briefing were the center’s head, Muhammad Iqbal Qasmani, and renowned hematologist Ghulam Sarwar.
Parents of these children expressed immense grati-tude, describing Saylani’s work as a beacon of hope. “It was an agonizing experience; words can’t de-scribe the hardship we endured. For the past two years, we’ve only needed to come here for medica-tion,” one parent shared. Maulana Bashir Farooq Qadri announced that, by God’s grace, a viable treatment for thalassemia now exists in Pakistan without the need for bone marrow transplants. Previously, it was believed that bone marrow transplants—costly procedures priced in the millions—were the only option for treating thalas-semia.
