Mysuru: JSS Medical College and Hospital, Mysuru along with Narayana Health City, Bengaluru, has organised a seminar and awareness camp on Thalassemia at the Paediatric Seminar Hall, JSS Hospital here on Aug. 13 from 10 am to 1 pm.
Thalassemia is caused by variant or missing genes that affects the process of haemoglobin synthesis, the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. People with Thalassemia make less haemoglobin and have fewer circulating red blood cells than normal, which results in anaemia requiring lifelong blood transfusions.
