Only to leave the fire of life
Xinjiang's mother has come thousands of miles to store the umbilical cord. And... Blood
Recently, ms. Zhang and her family from urumqi city, xinjiang, arrived in chengdu with a view to seeing the birth of two children at the central hospital for women and children in chengdu city. Unlike other moms, ms. Chang has a special mission here... - to store the blood of the two children's umbilical cords in the blood stem cell bank of the cord of sichuan province (hereinafter referred to as the sichuan umbilical bank), “it is a guarantee for the child and the family as a whole, and it is the main reason why we are doing our job”
Ms. Zhang is 34 years old, is 36 weeks pregnant and is about to receive a baby. Before preparing for the second child, she learned, through her local blood oncologist, of the medical value of cord blood and, for certain special reasons, wanted to store a “life-fire species” for the child. It is understood that umbilical stem cell transplants in umbilical cords can be used for leukaemia, lymphoma, multiple osteomyomas, regenerative obstructive anaemia, malignant diseases such as haemophilia syndrome, non-odious blood system diseases, as well as for the treatment of some hereditary diseases, congenital diseases and metabolic diseases。
“as of 30 june 2025, sichuan's cord bank had established cooperation with 156 clinical clinics throughout the country, providing 24,015 cord hla-type referral services, and 1,779 cord stem cells for treatment of 1,751 patients in medical institutions with the capability to transplant blood stem cells. Of these, 64. 82 per cent were adults and 60. 02 per cent were persons over 50 kg。
