Sweden government is planning to create an umbilical cord blood bank to treat deadly diseases like leukemia more effectively.

Some 6,000 transplants using umbilical cord stem cells have been done to date worldwide, but only around a dozen have been carried out in Sweden, which so far has been forced to request the stem cells from foreign blood banks.

The government intends to pump about 15 million kronor into setting up the bank at the Sahlgrenska University hospital in the southwestern city of Gothenburg at the beginning of next year.

It will be voluntary to donate to the cord blood bank.

Source: The Local


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