The Eastern India Hematology Group successfully hosted the 3rd Annual Conference of Eastern India Blood Marrow Cellular Therapy (EIBMCT 2025). Held in Rajarhat, Kolkata, the conference featured various scientific sessions and workshops, attracting renowned hematologists and medical professionals from across the country.
EIBMCT Meet:
Eastern India Blood Marrow & Cellular Therapy Meet
A dedicated part of EHG (Eastern Haematology Group) focused on Bone
Marrow Tra nsplant & Cellular Therapy
This isthe3rd ElBMCTMeet
Date: 1st & 2nd Aug 2025 Venue: Hotel Westin
•What is BMT?
BMT is Bone Marrow Transplant or Stem cell Transplant(SCT). Here we replace damaged bone marrow of patients suffering from different blood disorders, inherited bone marrow disorders or defective immune system with stem cells from healthy donors
•In which conditions BMT is done?
BMT is done in following conditions:
Thalassaemia
AplasticAnaemia
Leukemia/Blood Cancers
Lymphoma
Myeloma
Immune Deficiency disorders
Inherited Bone Marrow Failure syndromes
•What are the advantages of BMT?
BMT can cure almost all serious blood disorders for which it is indicated. It can cure
Thalassaemia, Sickle cell diseases, Blood cancers/ Leukemia/ Immune disorders/lnherited Bone Marrow disorders
•BMT centers in Eastern & North-Eastern India participating in EIBMCT 2025
1.N.R.S Medical College, WB
2.IHTM, Medical College Kolkata, WB
3.Apollo Multispeciality Hospital,Kolkata, WB
4.Tata Medical Center-Kolkata,WB
5.SGCCRI, Kolkata, WB (Thakurpukur Cancer Hospital)
6.Narayana Superspeciality Hospital, Howrah, WB
7.HCG EKO Cancer Center, Kolkata, WB
8.Parkview Super Speciality Hospital, Kolkata, WB
9.Ruby General Hospita, Kolkata, WB
10.SUM Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
11.SCB Medical college, Cuttack, Odisha
12.AllMS, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
13.Apollo Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
14.Bagchi Sri Shankara Cancer Centre and Research Institute,
Bhubaneswar, Odisha
15.Paras HMRI Hospital, Patna, Bihar
16.Mahavir Cancer Sansthan, Patna, Bihar
17.Jay Prabha Medanta Superspeciality Hospital, Patna
18.Guwahati Medical College, Guwahati, Assam
19.B Baruah Cancer Institute, Guwahati, Assam
20.Balco Medical Centre, Raipur, Chhattisgarh
21.Sanjeevani Cancer Care Hospital, Raipur, Chhattisgarh
22.American Oncology Institute, Manipur
•AIM of EIBMCT:
To consolidate Bone Marrow Transplant activities in the Eastern & North-
Eastern part of India
To unite Haematologists, Haemato-oncologists, BMT Physicians, Transfusion Medicine Specialists, Nurses, Scientists, Medical & Laboratory technologists, and all other supporting staffs related to BMT activities to improve BMT practices in this part of India
To share our knowledge, experiences, expertise for improvement of BMT in this part of our country
To support BMT activities in new centers of Eastern & North-Eastern part of India by hand-holding
Collaborating with national and international BMT organisations for training, guidance and collaborative activities
Awareness generation in community and patients on BMT
Communicating with government and corporate administrators to promote BMT in the Eastern & North-Eastern part of India
Mobilisingfund for BMT patients
Making BMT affordable and accessible to all, who need so that patients do not need to go out of this region for BMT
Summary of Press Release:
BMT can cure many inherited and other life threatening blood disorders like Thalassaemia, Blood cancers, Aplastic Anaemia etc.
The first BMT performed in this region is in NRS Medical College in the year 2009 followed by IHTM, Medical College Kolkata in the same year. Since then different centers started doing BMT gradually
ElBMCT(Eastern India Blood Marrow & Cellular Therapy) meet organized by EHG(Eastern Haematology Group) is formed with representations of all 12 states in the Eastern and North-Eastern part of our country.
This meet started in the year of 2023 to consolidate BMT and Cellular Therapy activities in this part of India, improving quality of BMT care, empowering and handholding new emerging centers and for awareness generation among people on BMT
In the first meet (EIBMCT 2023), 13 centers from different states of this region participated, which increased to 22 centers in this year(ElBMCT 2025) by continuous effort, advocacy and handholding approach by EIBMCT.
EIBMCT centers performed > 2000(Actual number 2354) BMT procedures with > 300 (378 in 2024) BMTs per year
BMT & CAR-T therapy is available and accessible in the Eastern & NorthEastern part of India
Now a days patients of this region who need BMT, do not need to go other
parts of India for doing BMT Long Live EIBMCT Long Live EHG.
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