In order to prevent SMA disease within the scope of the Ministry of Health’s Pre -National SMA Carrier Screening Program Adana Provincial Health Directorate Public Health Services Presidency of Seyhan State Hospital Campus of the Regional SMA Screening Laboratory was established. In addition to Adana Hatay, KahramanmaraşOsmaniye, Myrtle And KilisThe laboratory, which serves free of charge, was opened on 30 December and 3 thousand 88 samples were checked until 1 February.
“We can manage the prenatal processes of infants with SMA” “
Provincial Health Director Uzm. Dr. Halil Nacar, “SMA disease, both in the treatment and diagnosis and rehabilitation processes of the Ministry has serious services. One of them and the last Seyhan State Hospital SMA Diagnostic Laboratory. This laboratory newly married couples, couples who do not have married children or women who do not reach the third month. If you have no problems, we can manage the prenatal process of the babies with the carrier of these couples.
“We will reduce the exception of Baby Baby with SMA”
The region of SMA scanning laboratory and the Ministry of Health’s National Pre -Marriage Carrier Screening Program within the scope of the test within the scope of the Test after a while, SMA babies will no longer be born Uzm. Dr. Nacar, “We provide genetic counseling services to people who are identified as SMA carriage and then send those couples to the centers of our Ministry. In those centers, we are working to make healthy babies of the couples who will be born in the centers.
After a while, when we spread the SMA screening in our society, we will reduce the exception of Baby Baby Baby. When we reduce this, we will prevent many troubled processes related to both the care of these babies and the treatment. Thus, infants with SMA will decrease in our society and families will have infants who do not have healthier carrier or hereditary diseases. Of course, this will be a great gain for us, “he said.
“We give the results within 3 days”
Seyhan State Hospital General Laboratory Responsible Exp. Dr. Serhan Seyrek stressed that the results of the samples came to the laboratory 3 days later, “This laboratory is the first laboratory opened in Türkiye after the central laboratory in Ankara. We are scanning 6 provinces in this laboratory. We are working from Mersin to Kilis. We have been notified to the Family Health Centers and we have been giving the results to the central laboratory of Ankara.
“Couples to marry in this region should have this test”
Cukurova and the Eastern Mediterranean region of the marriage of relatives in the region, therefore SMA’li children were more born in the world. Dr. Seyrek, “Adana, as well as Hatay, Kahramanmaras, Osmaniye, Mersin and Kilis serve. These 6 provinces are more marriage. The results of the SMA are above the average of Turkey. Couples to marry in this region should have this test,” he completed.
(UAV)