Kolkata, August 09, 2025 : 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.
BMT can cure many inherited and other life threatening blood disorders like Thalassemia, Blood cancers, Aplastic Anemia 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 & North Eastern 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.
