Tawam Hospital in affiliation with Johns Hopkins Medicine and Abu Dhabi Health Services Company-SEHA launched an awareness campaign regarding Thalassemia in commemorating the International Thalassemia Day held at Bawadi Mall.
Photo shown above was taken this morning. Dr. Omar Trad, one of the Hematologists and Oncologists of the Pediatric Oncology Department of Tawam Hospital and his team lead the awareness campaign.
Thalassemia is a group of inherited autosomal recessive diseases of the blood that affects a person's ability to produce hemoglobin, resulting in anemia. Hemoglobin carries oxygen and nutrients to cells in the body. First known in Greece, Thalassa, a Greek word, meaning the sea and was first known as the anemia of the Greek people who lived around the Mediterranean Sea. It affects both males and females and is passed to children by parents who carry the mutated Thalassemia gene. If you'd like to read more about the Thalassemias, click here and here.
Screening is the key tool in preventing this disorder. If you are living in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, you can seek vital information about the Thalassemias at Tawam Hospital and Al Mafraq Hospital or seek your professional health care provider's advice.
A piece of advice: Prevention is better than cure. Have a great weekend and Happy Mother's Day!!
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happy mother's day to you, too! very informative post. hope more and more people will be aware of this....
love the flowers...looks like your doing a bit of layering or was it hdr?
Thank you for your professional advice.
Happy mother'day.
pretty sisterdear! Happy mom's day to you =)
Happy mother's day too Misalyn, Your bunso surely misses you too =)
I remember reading that Thalassemia is prevalent in this region because of marriages among blood relations?
Salamat sa reminder ng prevention...
Another good deed from you!
Happy Mothers Day, Misalyn
Glad to be back, Missed Ya!
Aloha from Hawaii
Comfort Spiral
Thanks for the Mother's Day greetings.
@Eng,
hindi ko pa na-try ang HDR. Nothing special with the photo maliban sa orchids ng Nanay ko yan:) Nilagyan lang ng frame.
@Gremliness,
Dami nga dito sa UAE at sa mga Arab countries dahil sa "inbreeding".
@all,
Again, thanks for the greetings and Happy Mother's Day to all you and to your mothers.
Happy Mothers' Day to you. Just stumbled upon your blog from someone else's page. Hehe.
A nurse in Greece! You must be having the time of your life. :)
Gorgeous orhids!! Hope you had a fabulous Mother's Day Misayln!! I can see you've been busy..(one of your comments on a previous post)! This one here is interesting too. I didn't even realize that about the meaning of the sea! Very informative- thanks..I appreciate hearing about your life and your updates! My very best to you and your family-
Regina-
Misalyn, you are a good person! Me, not so much.
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