We, the team of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology specialists, at Rela Hospital, offer holistic care for children, adolescents, and young adults with all types of cancers, blood disorders, and congenital immune problems.
We, the team of Paediatric Haematology and Oncology specialists, at Rela Hospital, offer holistic care for children, adolescents, and young adults with all types of cancers, blood disorders, and congenital immune problems. Our mission is to treat and cure these children by understanding their special needs and providing them with comprehensive, compassionate care from diagnosis through recovery. Our specialists are trained to connect with children and adolescents to set the stage for effective examinations, diagnosis and treatments.
Paediatric Haemato-Oncology Services
Evaluation and management of all blood-related disorders in children.
Evaluation, staging, and Multidisciplinary Tumour Board discussion for all newly diagnosed children with cancers.
Chemotherapy for all childhood cancers as per international standard protocols.
Diagnosis and management of all immune deficiency diseases in children.
All types of Bone Marrow Transplantation for benign and malignant diseases in children including:
Allogenic
Matched Related Donor
Matched Unrelated Donor
Haploidentical (half-matched) including T cell-depleted method
Cord blood transplantation
Autologous BMT
Liver transplant for advanced Hepatoblastoma headed by Prof Mohamed Rela.
Surgery and Radiotherapy expert care for childhood cancers.
Supportive Care Services
Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) – managed 24×7 by Paediatric Intensive Care Consultants.
Comprehensive lab services – including Haematology, Histopathology, Immunology and advanced molecular diagnostics like flow cytometry, HLA typing, PCR analysis.
Round-the-clock Blood Bank with facilities for apheresis
Advanced diagnostic radiology – including PET-CT scan
We offer comprehensive care in the treatment of the following disorders-
Haematology
Anaemia – nutritional like iron deficiency, vitamin B12 and folate deficiency
Haemolytic anaemias like thalassemia, sickle cell anaemia
Thrombocytopenia – ITP, platelet function disorders
Aplastic anaemia – inherited, acquired
Bleeding disorders including von Willebrand disease
Clotting disorders like haemophilia
Langerhans cell histiocytosis
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis
Other blood disorders
Oncology
Leukemias like Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, Acute myeloid leukaemia etc
Lymphomas- Hodgkin’s and Non Hodgkin’s lymphoma
Bone tumours – Ewing’s sarcoma, Osteosarcoma
Hepatoblastoma
Nephroblastoma (Wilm’s tumour)
Neuroblastoma
Rhabdomyosarcoma and other soft tissue sarcomas
Germ cell tumours
Brain tumours
Immunology
Evaluation of children with recurrent infections, immunological testing and management of immune deficiencies including Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID), agammaglobulinemia etc.
Bone marrow (stem cell) transplantation
Our highly trained specialists perform a variety of blood and marrow transplant procedures. All BMT patients are treated in a safe and private environment in state of the art HEPA filtered rooms. We offer all types of transplantation:
Allogenic BMT using matched related donors
Allogenic BMT using matched unrelated donors
Allogenic BMT using haploidentical (half-matched) donors
Allogenic unrelated cord blood transplantation
Autologous stem cell transplantation
Some of the conditions/diseases for which bone marrow transplantation is offered:
Haemoglobinopathies:
Thalassemia Major
Sickle cell anaemia
Primary Immune deficiencies like SCID, Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome