first national donor cord blood bank in Canada is finally open after a long awareness and effort fundraising conducted by Canadian blood Services.
The bank donors allows Canadian families to umbilical cord donation of their children instead of throwing them away, that experts suggest will benefit more than 1,000 Canadians currently need potentially transplant life-changing stem cells .
Cord blood donations will be collected at the Ottawa Hospital as the first samples sent to the donor bank. In mid-2014, specialists from the collection of cord blood in hospitals in Brampton, Edmonton and Vancouver will also donate stem cells from cord blood bank donor.
Dr. Robert Klaassen, a hematologist and oncologist at Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, welcomed the national bank cord blood donor. Klaassen believes that too many families are at risk on the basis of bone marrow donations -. The risks are greatly mitigated by cord blood
"It is very difficult to get the bone marrow itself because you have to get a perfect match, it is very unforgiving as the right thing to About marrow cells is because they are a newborn baby, they tend to better accept the fact that this is not their normal environment. "
donor bank allows families to potentially help change the lives of others. However, the families affected by the welfare of their own children may cord blood bank to a private facility keep everything in the family.