Aurangabad: After earning distinction in the field of cadaver organ donations at the state level, the city is now also emerging as a hub for tissue transplant after a city-based private hospital successfully performed Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) on two patients.

"We performed the BMT on two people 25-year-old male and 55-year-old female a few weeks ago. With this, we have become the first and only centre in Marathwada to provide such treatment," Kamalnayan Bajaj Hospital CEO Shamim Khan said.

He described the treatment as complete care from diagnosis to cure at one point to any patient suffering from either genetic or acquired disorder of blood. There exist two forms of BMT namely Autologous BMT and Allogeneic BMT and the Kamalnayan Bajaj Hospital has performed the former procedure on two patients.

"Autologous BMT is where patient's own stem cells are used while for Allogenic BMT, the stem cells are from a matched donor. Both procedures can offer cure to deadly diseases like blood cancers, lymphoma, myeloma and genetic diseases such as thalassemia and sickle cell anemia, among others," said Venkatesh Ekbote, consultant Hematologist at the hospital.

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