A section of the Coast General Hospital. [Photo/samrack.com]
The fight against Hemophilia at the Coast has received a major boost after Kenya Hemophilia Association agreed to work with Novo Nordisk, a Danish pharmaceutical company to establish a Hemophilia clinic at the Coast General Hospital. Shem Pata, a doctor at the hospital, who spoke during the world Hemophilia Day, said that persons affected with this health related complication will no longer have to travel to other parts of the nation to seek for treatment once the clinic becomes operational, adding that they will not pay for services at the facility. “We are happy that patients will receive medicine for free and this is good news to patients because its quite expensive. This clinic will ensure that we will give medical services to Hemophilia patients,” he said, as quoted by Baraka FM. On his part, the chairman Kenya Hemophilia Association Professor Karanja Njoroge asked the general public to assist persons affected with the complication instead of intimidating them in one way or another. “Our effort is to try to reach the families and public who know patients who may be suffering from bleeding disorders in silence, so that we can use them to reach those suffering in silence. They are there, occasionally you will hear a person who had an accident and died of bleeding, chances are they were Hemophiliac,” said Njoroge as quoted by the daily.Reports from CPGH indicate that over 30 patients suffering from this complication visit the facility on a daily basis seeking for treatment. Hemphilia is a mostly inherited genetic disorder that impairs the body's ability to make blood clots, a process needed to stop bleeding.