Foreign experts show interest in joint projects

RARE DISEASES ARE THOSE WHICH ARE THERE AMONG ONE IN 2000 PEOPLE SUCH AS INHERITED GENETIC DISORDER, ERRORS OF METABOLISM AMONG OTHERS

JAIPUR: Experts from Italy, Israel and Netherland have expressed interest in holding collaborative projects on rare diseases at JK Lon hospital, Jaipur.

Professor of paediatrics and in-charge, rare disease initiative, at SMS medical college, Ashok Gupta said, in the recent international conference on rare diseases and orphan drugs organised by Government of Israel, the experts from Italy, Israel and Netherland have expressed their interest on holding collaborative projects in the form of education, patient care and research.

Chairman, state technical committee on rare diseases, Gupta, who in the conference gave presentation on national policy on rare diseases in India, said there is a large population of patients suffering from rare diseases and accordingly we have the system in place, looking to which the experts showed their interest.

He said rare diseases are those which are there among one in 2000 people – such as inborn errors of metabolism, achondroplasia, inherited genetic disorder, lysosomal storage disorder and osteogenesis imperfecta.

Gupta said discussions were held on existing and planned health policies, obtaining the diagnosis and prevalence in challenging population, research advances, novel interventions, technology approaches to diseases and product modelling.