Call for Immediate Action to assist us
The Thalassemia Society in Ninava have met with the hospitals, asked many other regional health authorities, and the Ministry of Health, pleading for additional resources for thalassemia care. While the response has been sympathetic, there has been absolutely no chance in funding yet. Contributions with the Regional Health Authority resulted in a plan of action to treat our patients but there has been no fruitful actions on the plan . We are concerned that if this ignorance will continue. It puts all patients with thalassemia at risk.
The Thalassemia Society, and all families affected by thalassemia call upon the Ministry of Health for two things.
First : we request the Ministry of Health look into the the deaths of the young patients with thalassemia who have suffered over the past years. and, We need to know the reasons why our society was ignored in sharing thoughts and giving suggestions in any activity for contract signing with western parties who accepted to treat Iraqi patients.
Second : we request an immediate allocation of funding to the thalassemia program to allow patients to be transferred from the Society for Sick Children to any available treating program. There are currently about 200 patients qualified to receive treatment of stem cells over with different ages who are not able to find any possible solution to defeat the disease without such kind of foreign assistance.