SEPLAA visited the SKANS School of Accountancy on 11th March, 2010 to talk about their awareness drive 'Save a life, save a generation'.
The students demonstrated a lot of interest and were made aware of their health options before getting married.
It was explained that thalessemia can be caused if two carriers of the disease get married. The defect is present in the genes that can be carried forward to their children eventually requiring the child to be blood transfusion dependent for life, unless the child has a risky bone marrow transplant.
One student asked, ' If I smoke a lot, as in be a chain smoker, can I get thalessemia?'
To which the speaker replied, ' No, you can probably have lung cancer but not thalessemia.'
The student was visibly relieved to know this.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
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