The director of the Dubai Secret Rope Center, Dr. Hatem Al Abbas, revealed that a team from the center is working to implement a therapeutic protocol for Coffed 19 patients, which will be announced soon after the completion of the appropriate legal procedures, indicating that the center has used 20 stored units to treat patients through the use of stem cells today. 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 opportunity for hospitalization 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 its mechanism of action from the treatment that was recently disclosed by the Abu Dhabi Stem Cell Center, but it shares 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 storing samples is available to all citizens and residents within the state, and the center guarantees the complete secrecy of the donors ’personalities, as the center has a number of nitrogen incubators to save blood units, for about 30 years, without damage or impact, noting that the beneficiaries of these samples are individuals Histologically identical to the umbilical cord blood unit.