India: Banking on the Cord of Life

November 20, 2006

When Tanya Sharma was expecting her second child early this year, she chanced upon an advertisement on cord blood banking. A cousin of hers had recently lost her child to thalessemia and doctors had said transplant of stem cells could have saved her. That horror story remained in her mind, and the ad set her thinking. Within a few days, she registered with LifeCell, a cord blood banking company, happy that she had done her best to secure a healthy future for her newborn. (Financial Express)