CSS Consolidates its Leadership in Panama by Surpassing 400 Bone Marrow Transplants
The CSS has performed more than 400 hematopoietic stem cell transplants since 2000.
The Social Security Fund (CSS) has performed more than 400 hematopoietic stem cell transplants since 2000, consolidating its leadership in this procedure and positioning Panama as a regional benchmark in highly complex medicine. This figure represents half of the more than 800 transplants performed nationwide during the last two decades, according to Dr. Ninotchka Mendoza, coordinator of the Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Unit of the City of Health, during the inauguration of the Tenth Workshop/Symposium of the World Bone Marrow Transplant Network (WBMT) and the IV WBMT Nursing Workshop.
The meeting brings together international specialists and health authorities to share scientific advances, strengthen cooperation and continue promoting this therapy for patients with hematological diseases. During the event, WBMT President Mickey Koh highlighted that Panama has the necessary infrastructure and capacity to become the reference center for Central America and the Caribbean in this specialty. In this regard, experts explained that a bone marrow transplant is not surgery, but an infusion process similar to a blood transfusion, whose objective is to replace diseased cells to restore the normal production of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.
