Sickle Cell Disease: the ‘diabetes of haematology’

In 1993, we had one paediatric patient with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) at PMH. We now have 55 patients under age 17. That may not sound like many, but this is a chronic disease with many challenges facing the patients, their families and the staff caring for them through their lifetime.

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