{"id":3118,"date":"2022-07-11T21:18:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T21:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/07\/11\/sickle-cell-i-want-patients-to-know-there-is-hope\/"},"modified":"2022-07-11T21:18:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T21:18:07","slug":"sickle-cell-i-want-patients-to-know-there-is-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=3118","title":{"rendered":"Sickle cell: &#8216;I want patients to know there is hope&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A woman who became one of the first people to have a stem cell transplant for sickle cell disease on the NHS says she wants others to know there is hope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Anusjka Regis-Etumnu, from Luton, campaigned for the treatment to be made available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Every year about 350 babies born in the UK have sickle cell disease, meaning their red blood cells are a different shape and they can get stuck in blood vessels increasing the risk of stroke and other issues. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Ms Regis-Etumnu said: &#8220;I just want sickle cell patients to know that we see you. And there is hope.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-62101986?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A woman who became one of the first people to have a stem cell transplant for sickle cell disease on the NHS says she wants others to know there &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3119,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}