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On 18 April 2019 ideSHi along with Rotary Club of Dhaka North ran the monthly free Thalassemia carrier screening camp at Tejgaon College campus. At total of 170 students and faculty members combined volunteered to get themselves tested in this program.

The first free thalassemia screening camp of 2019 was organized on March 6 by ideSHi and Rotary Club Dhaka North at BRAC University Campus receiving an overwhelming response from students and faculty members. Over 200 volunteered to get themselves screened for carrier status.

The 3rd Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the ideSHi foundation was held at ideSHi conference room, Level 8 of Hosaf High Tower, 9, Bir Uttam A. K. Khander Sarak, Amtoli, Mohakhali, Dhaka on Sunday, 03 March 2019. The AGM was preceded by a meeting of the Board of Governors of ideSHi Foundation.

The following posters featured ideSHi presenters at the 11th Asian Federation of Biotechnology (AFOB) Regional Symposium that took place in Biopolis, Singapore from 23-25 January, 2019 Noorjahan Maliha– “Identification of pathogenic mutation in Thyroid Stimulating Hormone Receptor (TSHR) gene in Bangladeshi Congenital Hypothyroid patients with dysgenesis” Dr. Nusrat Sultana– “Association of Diverse Population of Patients’ Origin REd blood

For November 2018, ideSHi and Rotary Club Dhaka North collaborated to organize the free Thalassemia carrier screening camp at Jagannath University, Dhaka on November 20, 2018. The camp received overwhelming response from the students and faculties alike in collection of specimen for screening. Over 160 individuals volunteered to get themselves tested for carrier status.

On 11 November 2018 a MOU was signed between ideSHi and RCDN to carry out free Thalassemia screening program for young people of marriageable age. RCDN and ideSHi will work together to regularly run free Thalassemia screening camps with ideSHi providing the necessary technical expertise, qualified personnel and laboratory facilities to conduct the screening. The President of RCDN