Your contribution to Hemoglobal can help make the difference between life and death for a child with thalassemia. No amount is too small in the fight against thalassemia. Below are some of the ways you can help to save the life of a child in Sri Lanka.

CDN $100 buys: Contributions toward medical supplies, including infusion pumps and blood testing equipment, and tests of heart and liver function which are currently not monitored in all patients, placing them at risk.

CDN $350 buys: One infusion pump for delivery of life saving medicine, which removes excess iron from the bodies of transfused children.

CDN $1,000 buys: One year of support, including salary, for a counsellor or social worker in a clinic to assist in the care, management and counselling of hundreds of local families.

CDN $2,500 buys: A hemoglobinometer, a machine which measures blood levels (in the few clinics where these have been purchased, efficient and accurate blood testing saves families thousands of hospital days per year).

CDN $5,000 buys: Five years of treatment (to remove the iron accumulated through transfusions) for a child with thalassemia under the age of five years.*

CDN $10,000 buys: Five years of treatment for a child with thalassemia over the age of five years.*

*The key to survival in thalassemia is prevention of the iron overload that is acquired through transfusions. Although the government is doing what it can, often the resources to buy life-saving medicine are not enough to meet the full needs of all children. Some families can purchase extra medicine, but most cannot. Hemoglobal has found that some families with two children affected by thalassemia have already lost their older child due to the shortage of medicine. Some donors may want to supply these families with an assured regular supplement to their supply of medicine, to ensure that the second child in these families, and others in need, are not lost.