A Planned and Affordable Way to Store Umbilical Cord Stem Blood

A Planned and Affordable Way to Store Umbilical Cord Stem Blood

According to local health officials, a lot of money is charged by private firms for storing umbilical cord stem cells. Reason behind this is lack of inventory publicly available. To overcome the issue, government has decided to set up a government authorized system.

There are four hospitals from Ottawa, Vancouver, Edmonton and Toronto each that will be participating in the first ever stem cell treatment in Canada. The Ottawa Hospital will initiate collecting umbilical cord blood for this treatment in Canada's first national public bank, Quebec.

Well, Quebec run its own program by the name of Héma-Quebec, but has decided to collect the samples for the rest of the country as well.

Till now, the bank has been given $48 million by the government. This fund has been raised from different provinces and territories of Canada.

According to information, it will be during the spring season in 2013, when Ottawa will begin with its umbilical cord blood collecting process. Following it, other hospitals will start in 2014.

Umbilical cord blood plays a magical role in safeguarding life. Recently, an eight-year-old Alysha Dykstra, who was diagnosed with severe leukemia four years ago, is now in remission after being given the umbilical cord blood.