Haematology, Haemato-Oncology & Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT)

Overview

The Department of Haematology, Haemato-Oncology, and Bone Marrow Transplantation (BMT) at Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital offers comprehensive care for patients of all age groups with acute and chronic blood disorders.

Our multidisciplinary team comprises expert adult and paediatric haemato-oncologists, haematopathologists, infectious disease specialists, transplant surgeons, and highly trained laboratory technicians. With deep expertise in advanced therapies such as haematopoietic stem cell transplantation, CAR T-cell therapy, and targeted treatments for blood and bone marrow cancers, we deliver cutting-edge care aligned with global standards.

The department also houses one of India's most advanced blood bank facilities, ensuring the highest levels of safety and compatibility. Our nursing and support teams are specially trained in managing central venous access devices, following strict protocols to minimise infection and complications.

With a strong focus on clinical excellence, empathy, and round-the-clock support, our team is dedicated to delivering the best possible outcomes—even in complex and critical cases.

Location: Level 3, Tower Building

Timings: 08:00 am to 08:00 pm

Our Services
Technology & Infrastructure
Conditions We Treat

Our department provides comprehensive services for both adult and paediatric patients with benign and malignant blood and bone marrow disorders. We also manage a wide range of congenital and acquired blood disorders. Our services include:

Adult Haematology Clinic
- The adult haematology clinic provides the highest quality clinical care for adult patients with haematological disorders, following strict protocols.
- We also offer bone marrow/stem cell transplantation for adult patients with haematological malignancies.

Paediatric Haematology Clinic
- The paediatric haematology clinic has a child-friendly environment to put the little patients at ease instantly.
- We also offer a sedation facility for daycare procedures, such as bone marrow aspiration, biopsies, and lumbar puncture, among others.
- We have a ‘vein viewer’, which enables the peripheral veins to be easily found; thus, children need not be subjected to multiple pricks to draw blood.
- Further, play rooms are available for children so that they can play and have fun.
- We also have an excellent physiotherapy department for paediatric patients, along with palliative care and dedicated pain management/social worker services.

The infrastructure and facilities in our department are specially designed to take care of immunocompromised patients.

We have HEPA-filtered rooms to provide a sterile environment for patients undergoing bone marrow transplantation and CAR T-cell therapy.
We have positive-pressure for protective isolation and negative-pressure for airborne infection control.
We have cutting-edge pathology lab facilities, including flow cytometry, molecular genetic mutation analysis, and coagulation/clotting tests.
Our blood bank, one of the best in the country, is equipped to facilitate leucocyte reduction, i.e., the removal of leucocytes from blood, at the source of collection and nucleic acid testing to detect and minimise the chance of blood transfusion-related infections.
We also have an apheresis unit for peripheral blood stem cell collection.
Our daycare facility is staffed with experienced haemato-oncology nurses who are specially trained to handle the administration of chemotherapy drugs and blood products.

Our department specialises in the diagnosis and treatment of a wide range conditions in adult and paediatric patients:

Anaemia: A condition characterised by the decreased ability of the blood to carry oxygen. The major types include:
- Iron-deficiency anaemia: This is caused due to iron insufficiency, due to which the red blood cells cannot produce enough amounts of haemoglobin, which helps red blood cells carry oxygen.
- Vitamin deficiency anaemia: This is caused due to the presence of insufficient amounts of Vitamin B12 and Folate, essential for red blood cell function.
- Aplastic anaemia: A rare and serious condition characterised by the inability of the bone marrow to produce enough red blood cells.
- Haemolytic anaemia: This is caused due to red blood cells being destroyed faster than the bone marrow can produce new ones.

Abnormalities in WBC counts: The abnormally high (leucocytosis) or low (leukopenia) WBC counts.

Platelet abnormalities and bleeding/clotting disorders
- Immune thrombocytopenic purpura: A condition in which the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks platelets, causing issues with blood clotting.
- Haemophilia: A serious genetic condition characterised by a deficiency of clotting factors, which impairs blood clotting.
- Von Willebrand disease: The most common genetic bleeding disorder characterised by a deficiency of a protein called von Willebrand factor, which is crucial for clotting.

Genetic conditions
- Thalassaemia: Characterised by the inability of the body to produce normal haemoglobin.
- Sickle cell disease: Characterised by the presence of abnormal haemoglobin, which in turn, results in red blood cells becoming rigid and sickle shaped.

Bone marrow disorders
- Fanconi anaemia: A rare condition characterised by the inability of the bone marrow to produce healthy red blood cells and platelets.
- Myeloproliferative disorders: A group of rare blood cancers characterised by the overproduction of red blood cells (polycythaemia vera), platelets (essential thrombocythemia), white blood cells (chronic myeloid leukaemia), and scarring within the bone marrow (myelofibrosis).

Haematological malignancies: This includes blood cancers, such as leukaemia, lymphoma, which refers to cancer(s) in the lymphatic system, the network of organs, tissues, and vessels that help the body fight off infections, and multiple myeloma, which refers to cancer(s) forming in plasma cells that produce antibodies to fight infections.
Amyloidosis: A rare disease characterised by the accumulation of abnormal proteins (amyloid) within organs, affecting their function is also associated with associated with plasma-cell dyscrasia.
Other blood disorders that are idiopathic in nature (unknown causes)