The Dubai Umbilical Cord Blood and Research Center, affiliated with the Dubai Health Authority, launched an electronic registration service to request stem cell storage at the center for a period of 30 years, as part of its continuous efforts to facilitate pregnant mothers to benefit from the services of the center in all circumstances, especially in this exceptional circumstance during the "Kovid" pandemic. -19 ».
The head of the donor recruitment unit, the first clinical researcher at the Dubai Umbilical Cord Blood and Research Center, Dr. Fatima Al Hashemi, explained the mechanism of benefiting from the new service, which is for mothers who wish to store stem cells to send an email to the Dubai Umbilical Cord Blood Center, as a request for registration in the service, with writing The different contact numbers, where the concerned team in the center provides them with all the documents required to register the official data, and re-send them to the center via email DCRC@dha.gov.ae, to review and verify the data, and ensure that the required conditions are met, and the official registration in the center , To store stem cells for 30 years.
Al-Hashemi pointed to the continuous training courses and programs implemented by the center remotely, through smart means and techniques for medical and nursing cadres in the various hospitals of the authority on the best methods for collecting umbilical cord blood samples, and obtaining successful and storable stem cells when separating them from umbilical cord blood.
At the end of the course, a short test is held over the phone with the participants, to ensure that they are ready to take the samples correctly. She said, "So far, the center has been able to train 37 medical and nursing cadres at Hatta Hospital remotely."
Treat 20 cases
The head of the Donor Polarization Unit, the first clinical researcher at the Dubai Umbilical Cord Blood and Research Center, Dr. Fatima Al Hashemi, has revealed that the center has so far contributed in cooperation with international centers in treating 20 conditions that were suffering from thalassemia, sickle cell anemia, leukemia, and Fanconi anemia, after supplying these centers With stem cells extracted from cord blood stored in the center.
She pointed to the success of the center, since its establishment in 2006 until now, in storing more than 7000 samples of stem cells extracted from the cord blood of mothers of different nationalities.