Cord Blood Storage for Family Health | Tips for Expectant Parents | Secure Baby’s Life
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Empowering Parents to Make Decisions about Their Family’s Health
Medical research studies have established that Cord blood stem cells are one time available medical resource for treating numbers of life threatening diseases. Immunologically cord blood
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cells are much stronger and versatile in nature than matured stem cells of adults so these can be used in transplantation with more flexibility. Also cord blood cells have capabilities to get transformed into all the major types of cell in the body.
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Because of the proven utility cord blood cells are being used in transplantation treatments of leukemia lymphoma immune disorders diabetes brain injury hearing loss heart defects and blood diseases.
Despite the proven importance of Cord blood in medical surgery the awareness and acceptance among the expecting parents about the Cord blood storage banks is considerably low. Reasons are many like parents are not informed about this God gifted life saving resource or the cost of cord blood banking is not affordable for many parents. Activities to spread awareness about Cord blood banking are hardly noticed and published by media because these don’t have any sensational element. According to a recent research more than 78% expectant mothers accepted that they were very little informed about Cord blood banking so they couldn’t decide.
To eliminate this significant education gap and to increase general awareness society of the American Hospital Association has decided to celebrate July month as Cord Blood Awareness Month globally inviting all the leading Cord blood banks to participate. By declaring it as a medical necessity cost of cord blood storage can be reduced by approx. 35 percent. Bills of Cord blood banking can also be passed to insurance companies for the full or partial compensation. Reduced cost of cord blood banking will empower the parents to decide for Cord blood banking to make their whole family more secured against many life threatening diseases. In India even today there are very few cities that have Cord blood banking facility. To empower the parents to make timely decisions about their family’s health inspiring support of govt. social welfare organizations medical institutions financial institutions insurance sector etc is must.
The results of continuous efforts of spreading awareness about Cord blood banking is being noticed every where. Realizing utility of cord blood stem cells and its worth as a health insurance for whole family about 8% of parents decide for cord blood banking. Out of these almost 80% approach to private Cord blood banks and the rest 20% prefer public banks. Still 8% ratio is very low and much is needed to be done to make Cord blood banking popular and acceptable in India.
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