The centre will provide advanced medical treatment for common disorders like leukaemia, myeloma and lymphoma
Jupiter Hospital has launched Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) Centre, to provide advanced medical treatment for common disorders like leukaemia, myeloma and lymphoma.
Announcing the launch of BMT Centre, Dr Rajendra Patankar, CEO, Jupiter Hospital, Pune said. “The centre will successfully treat the patients who are suffering from life-threatening diseases such as leukaemia, myeloma and lymphoma among others. Jupiter Hospital offers BMT facilities with well-equipped Hematology lab, transfusion medicine, Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) matching, and a team to perform this advanced procedure.”
The newly established BMT Centre has been built in accordance to the established protocols for BMT centre.
“Haemopoietic Stem Cell is sourced from Bone Marrow (BM), Peripheral Blood Stem Cell (PBSC) and Placental Umbilical cord Blood (P-UCB). We are equipped to perform all major types of bone marrow transplants at this centre. It is estimated that we have now over 10 million donors at Matched Unrelated-BMT bank or Registry. With the opening of our centre people of this region would get world-class facility here in Pune,” said Dr Sweta Lunkad, Senior Hematologist with Avinash Cancer Clinic, Pune and Head of Jupiter BMT Centre.
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