Ashot Posted January 10, 2008 Report Share Posted January 10, 2008 ARMENIAN BONE MARROW REGISTER HAS 14,000 DONORS The Yolian blood transfusion center in Yerevan has 1,500 registered donors, not counting hundreds of volunteers who are students, doctors and members of their families. The Armenian Bone Marrow Register has now 14,000 donors. Its manager Rubina Ghazarian said to Armenpress they helped to perform two bone marrow transplantation operations, one in USA and the second in Germany. Armenians have a unique genetic structure of bone marrow. Therefore, probability of finding matches for transplantation is higher among Armenians. Transplantation is the last hope for survival for people with blood diseases, most of who are children. The probability of survival by transplantation is 40-50 per cent among adults and 60-70 per cent among children. The Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry Charitable Trust was founded in July 1998 in Armenia as a non-profit, non-sectarian, non-governmental and independent organization. Its mission is to save precious Armenian lives by creating a bone marrow donor registry which, with the volunteer recruitment of Armenian donors worldwide, will increase the pool of existing international donors and thus give a chance of survival to patients with Leukemia or other blood related diseases. The Trust's honorary chairperson is the First Lady of the Republic of Armenia, Dr. Bella Kocharian and the chairperson is Dr. Frieda Jordan, a biochemist whose expertise is the establishment of bone marrow registries. The Register has obtained a stem cell harvester which separates blood cells necessary for transplantation operation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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