India ambassador presents gift to Armenia Muratsan clinic: Medicine for thalassemia treatment (photo)

YEREVAN. – India’s Ambassador to Armenia Suresh Babu on Wednesday presented a gift to Muratsan clinic - medicine for the treatment of children with thalassemia.

According to the director of the clinic Bagrat Baveyan, this is not the only a charitable action by the Indian Embassy; the purpose is to help sick children.

Armenian Deputy Health Minister Sergey Khachatryan, for his part, noted that today’s action was a direct evidence of the warm relations between Armenia and India.

Ambassador Babu, in turn, noted in his remarks that this was a very modest contribution to the treatment of sick children. He stated that the medicine was provided by Cipla pharmaceutical company, which is one of the three leading Indian companies in this domain.

Thalassemia, also called Mediterranean anemia, is a form of inherited autosomal recessive blood disorder characterized by abnormal formation of hemoglobin. Thalassemia is caused by variant or missing genes that affect how the body makes hemoglobin, the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. People with thalassemia make less hemoglobin and have fewer circulating red blood cells than normal, which results in mild or severe microcytic anemia.

Photo by Arsen Sargsyan

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