Provide free treatment to cancer
patient: HC tells AIIMS
New Delhi: The Delhi High
Court on Wednesday directed AIIMS to provide free
of cost necessary treatment to a blood cancer
patient till the next date of hearing in July.
Observing that the patient's petition
was a "mercy petition" to the high court and it was the duty of the
court to help the patient, Justice I.S. Mehta asked the All India Institute of
Medical Sciences (AIIMS) to provide free treatment to the patient till July 9,
when the court will again hear the matter. The court's direction came on a plea
by Anand Kumar Morya, who sought direction to the hospital to provide free and
continuous treatment to his brother, a blood cancer patient. The patient,
30-year-old Satish, has been undergoing chemotherapy at AIIMS and his family
has already spent around Rs.3 lakh on treatment, and cannot afford further
treatment, advocate Ashok Agarwal told the court.
In his plea, Morya said his brother
Satish, a resident of Mathura who ran a photocopy-cum-lamination shop, was
diagnosed with Burkitt's Leukemia, a form of blood cancer, in March, barely
three months after his marriage.
Due to his condition, the shop had to
be closed down and machines sold off to bear the cost of treatment, said the
plea. Satish's father, a Class 4 railway employee with a monthly salary of
Rs.12,000, was now the sole earning member in a family of six, it said. The
patient's father has exhausted all his savings on the treatment, and even his
provident fund account is left with a meagre balance of Rs.24,550, said the
petition. "They (the family) have been given an additional expenditure
estimate of Rs.6 lakh recently, which they are unable to bear. The petition
thus seeks continuation of treatment at AIIMS free of cost in order to save
Satish's life," it said.
The plea said the family was not in a
position to bear the expenditure and, under such circumstances, Satish's
chemotherapy was likely to get interrupted. Discontinuation of treatment would
lead to an anomalous situation by reversing the gains of treatment already
given. This will ultimately endanger the patient's life.
Pointing out that Satish has been responding well to the
treatment and his condition has improved, the plea said the family had, in
representations on May 1 and 13 to the AIIMS director, requested free continuation
of treatment, but no response has been received so far.
Source: www.zeenews.india.com
11.06.2015
World first: Woman delivers baby
after transplant of her frozen childhood ovarian tissue
Brussels: In what can be termed as a
medical breakthrough and the first ever case in the world, a 27-year-old
Belgium woman gave birth to a baby boy using transplanted ovarian tissue which
was frozen in her childhood.
Just before her 14th birthday, she was
diagnosed with acute anaemia, needing powerful, ovary-damaging treatment.
Before the therapy, her right ovary was removed and frozen in fragments in the
hope that it could be used if she ever wanted to become a mother.
Her remaining ovary failed following
the treatment, meaning she would have been unlikely to conceive without the
transplant.
A decade later, when she expressed the
desire to have a baby, surgeons in Belgium thawed some of the fragments and
reimplanted them. Within five months, the tissue grew follicles with maturing
eggs and started menstruating regularly but she could not conceive because of
her partner having infertility issues.
But after some time, the woman became
pregnant naturally with a new partner at the age of 27. The boy was born last
November, weighing 3.1 kilogrammes.
"This is an important breakthrough in the field because
children are the patients who are most likely to benefit from the procedure in
the future," said Isabelle Demeestere at Erasmus Hospital at Brussels Free
University, whose team carried out the transplant.
Source: www.zeenews.india.com
11.06.2015
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