[ad_1] When five-year-old Suraj was debilitated with a persistent fever, his family took him to the district hospital in Nuapada in western Odisha. The hospital directed them to the Veer Surendra Sai Institute of Medical Sciences and Research at Burla in Sambalpur, around 250 km from their village. At the Institute, Suraj underwent a diagnostic test called haemoglobin electrophoresis to detect whether he had sickle cell disease (SCD). When…
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