Sickle Cell Anaemia (SCA)
- Recently, Finance Minister said that government will work in “mission mode” to eliminate SCA by 2047.
- SCA is an inherited blood disorder is highly prevalent among tribes in South Indian States.
- It affects shape of red blood cells, which carry oxygen to all parts of the body.
- People with this disease have a typical hemoglobin molecule called hemoglobin S, which can distort red blood cells into a sickle, or crescent, shape.
- India is second-worst affected country in terms of chances of being born with SCA ....
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