Country to see bone marrow transplant soon

For the first time, the country is going to achieve the rare feat of bone marrow transplantation by mid-March, said Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim Sunday.
“It’ll be a milestone in the treatment of blood cancer and thalassemia in the country,” he said when a delegation of Massachusetts General Hospital of the USA met him at his office.
The delegation informed the minister of various aspects of the bone marrow transplant unit set up at Dhaka Medical College Hospital with the assistance of the US hospital, according to a news agency.