The director of the Dubai Secret Rope Center, Dr. Hatem Al Abbas, revealed that a team from the center is working on the completion of a treatment protocol for patients «Coved-19», which will be announced soon after the completion of appropriate legal procedures, indicating that the center has used 20 stored units to date to treat Patients using stem cells extracted from them.
Al-Abbas told «Emirates Today» that the expected treatment is extracted from stem cells, which is a supportive treatment, which enhances the chance of recovery for patients, and comes as part of the center’s efforts to support and enhance access to various treatments for «Covid-19». He explained that the expected treatment differs in the mechanism of his work from the treatment that was recently revealed by the Abu Dhabi Stem Cell Center, but he shared with him the goal, which is to speed up recovery.
He pointed out that the number of units stored in the center has now reached about 8000 units, used to treat thalassemia and leukemia, and other genetic blood diseases. The center is responsible for collecting, extracting and storing stem cells from cord blood, spreading awareness of the importance of stem cell storage, and organizing workshops for medical staff , And medical support, to define the correct methods for collecting blood samples that meet the conditions of storage, in addition to a histological conformity examination to know the extent of congruence between the unit of stem cells extracted from cord blood, and the patient wishing to benefit from them.
He stressed that the storage of samples is available to all citizens and residents within the state, and the center guarantees the complete confidentiality of the personalities of the donors, as the center has a number of nitrogen incubators to save blood units, for about 30 years, without damage or being affected, indicating that the beneficiaries of these samples are individuals Conformed to the cord blood unit.