Medical society aims to raise hemophilia awareness
By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter
To raise awareness of hemophilia, the Taiwan Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis yesterday invited people with the condition to tell their stories.
The call came on World Hemophilia Day, which this year has the theme of “Adapting to Change, sustaining care in a new world.”
Peng Ching-tien (彭慶添), a hematologist at China Medical University Children’s Hospital and chairman of the group, said that 1,500 people in Taiwan have a severe form of the inherited genetic disorder in which the blood does not clot properly.
Common symptoms are unexplained easy bruising, swelling and stiffness of the joints, and excessive bleeding from injuries, he said.