Friday 28 June on Videolina, at 9pm, appointment with Hippocrates special thalassemia. The focus is on new therapies that contribute to improving the quality of life of patients. On the island there are 1500 people being treated for this pathology. One thousand patients depend on transfusions.
The new gene therapy, already successfully tested, would free many of them from this constraint. Speakers include Raffaella Origa, president of the Italian Society of Thalassemia and Haemoglobinopathies (Site) and professor of Paediatrics at the University of Cagliari, Mauro Murgia, regional director of the Blood Centre, Ugo Cappellacci president of the Social Affairs Commission of the Chamber, regional councilor Francesco Agus (he is part of the Health Commission), the journalist Federico Mereta.
Interviews will be offered with Franco Locatelli, head of "Oncohematology" at Bambino Gesù in Rome, creator of the study that paved the way for the new gene therapy, and with Marianna Medda, originally from Norbello, who talks about her coexistence with thalassemia. The citizens' point of view in Alessandra Ragas' interviews. The direction is entrusted to Massimo Piras. In the video the testimony of Marianna Medda.