Cord Blood Banking Catches on in India - 1,000 Indian Mothers-to-be Enroll
Asia Cryo-Cell Private Ltd’s LifeCell, the country’s first private cord blood bank to usher in umbilical cord stem banking, has enrolled 1,000 expectant women for banking cord blood stem cells at its facility in Chennai in its first year of operations.
”We have achieved a major milestone in just one year and close to 1,000 expectant women from all corners of the country have enrolled with us and more than 3,000 are in touch with us,” Cryo-Cell Asia CEO Abhay Kumar told reporters here today.
The company planned to expand its network of marketing and collection centres to 24 cities in the next two years, he said, adding that it had centres in Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Ludhiana, Allahabad and New Delhi.
LifeCell offered its services for a fixed price, including an enrolment fee of Rs 5,000, processing fee of Rs 22,000 and annual storage fee of Rs 2,900.
August 9th, 2006 at 1:58 am
1.What would be cost for storing stem cell ?
2.Is the Kit for cord Blood Banking is free ?
3. If it costs , how much does it cost?
4. Where can i get the same.
Regards
Gandhimathi Sivakumar.
August 18th, 2006 at 12:28 am
Now it is too late i havent got any information about the stem cell. I have given birth to boy child( Surya Prabha). My Husband Mr. Sivakumar and Daughter Madhuprabha are fine. I still require this stem cell inforamtion to convey this to others.
regards
Gandhimathi Sivakumar.