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EMJ-Emirates Medical Journal. 2004; 22 (2): 135-6
in English
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| ID: emr-65925
ABSTRACT
Newborn screening is an essential and productive preventive public health programme. Since 1993 cord blood screening for haemoglobinopathies was started in Tawam Hospital. Over a period of 28-month a total of 3986 cord blood samples were collected and systematically screened for haemoglobinopathies. The commonest abnormality detected was alpha thalassaemia trait in 27%