The Uganda Cancer Institute has disclosed that it has added a new technology of blood and cellular therapy aimed to provide more treatment options for patients.
The therapy named apheresis is a procedure in which blood is collected and part of the blood such as platelets or white blood cells is taken out while the rest of the blood is returned to the contributor of the blood.
Ritah Bafumba who’s the head of the nurse and hematology ward at the Uganda Institute said that the machine separates the blood components according to how heavy they are with the heaviest ones remaining downs whereas plasma and platelets will remain on top.