“He is so tired of all the injections and transfusions. Every 4 days we have to take him to the hospital or his haemoglobin rate falls down to 3 or lower, and he faints out of weakness.”16-year-old Sachin was barely 6 months old when he got diagnosed with Thalassemia, a rare genetic disorder of the blood, in which the body produces an abnormal form of hemoglobin, thereby reducing oxygen carried around in the blood. Since his diagnosis, he has been alive only on transfusions and heavy medication. Now his condition has worsened so much, that the only way to save him is with a bone marrow transplant.Frequent high fevers led to his diagnosisWhen Sachin was 6 months old, he started getting recurring high fevers. His parents Prakash and Bhavna took him to the doctor and upon running blood tests, his hemoglobin level was found to be dangerously low, at 3. They immediately gave him a transfusion and started conducting more tests. These test results revealed that little Sachin was suffer
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