Families of thalassemia patients under financial strain to afford treatment

Patients of beta thalassemia and their families demand that the government provide them free treatment.

Eleven-year-old Heena Chaudhary, a resident of Madhuwan Municipality-3 in Bardiya district, has been suffering from beta thalassemia for the past two years. Beta thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder in which the body does not produce hemoglobin normally.