India, Jan. 15 -- After operating with limited capacity for years, the paediatric bone marrow transplant (BMT) programme at the government-run Post Graduate Institute of Child Health (PGICH), Noida, has been expanded its services, following the commissioning of an upgraded transplant unit in June 2024, officials said on Wednesday.

Since the programme's launch in 2020, the institute has carried out 94 paediatric BMTs, with most cases of children suffering from thalassemia, aplastic anaemia, leukaemia and primary immunodeficiency disorder.

Officials said that the pace of transplants has increased over the past year owing to better infrastructure and increase in staff.

Prof Lawrence Faulkner, an international paediatric BMT specialist wit...