Mangubhai Patel, Governor of Madhya Pradesh, honoured Dr AK Dwivedi, a well-known physician, with the Madhya Pradesh Ratna Award at the glittering ceremony or
Julia’s Wings Foundation Brings Awareness to Rare Disease in Memory of Local Resident Written by Julia’s Wings Foundation
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Residents will be seeing lots of red bows, lights, shirts, decorations and more around the
area starting March 1st and continuing until March 7th, as part of the Operation Wear Red Campaign organized by the Julia’s Wings Foundation to raise awareness of aplastic anemia, a rare bone marrow failure disease that affects just one in 250,000 people each year. While the disease can affect anyone at any age, it is most common in children and young adults. The campaign, now in its 7th year, is held in honor of local resident Julia Malsin and seeks to educate the general public about the disease and how they can help children and families affected by it. Julia, who passed away in 2012 at the age of 13 had just one wish, that children battling the disease would never be alone in the hospital as they underwent lengthy treatment. Her parents an