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World Sickle Cell (WSC) Day 2024

✅ Every year on June 19,WSC Day is observed.
✅ The theme for 2024 is "Hope Through Progress: Advancing Sickle Cell Care Globally."

✅ Gov. of India embarked on the ‘Mission for Elimination of SCD by 2047’, with PM Narendra Modi launching the National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission from Shahdol, Madhya Pradesh on 1st July, 2023.
✅ The mission entails awareness creation, universal screening of 7 crore people in the age group of 0-40 years in the affected tribal areas.
✅ The focus is on tribal dominated districts of 17 states with higher prevalence of the disease.
✅ The National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission is a sub mission of National Health Mission.

✅ Gujarat was the first state in the country to launch a sickle cell anemia control program in 2006.

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cobalt-rich Afanasy Nikitin Seamount

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✅ AIIMS Delhi has successfully performed India's first foetal blood transfusion to save a child with a rare blood disorder.
✅ The patient, a woman from Haryana, had suffered 7 failed pregnancies due to incompatibility between her red blood cells and those of her foetus.
✅ The foetus was suffering from anaemia and required urgent blood transfusions.
✅ The required blood type, O D phenotype red cell units, was not available in India and was imported from Japan.
✅ The foetus received 6 intrauterine blood transfusions, which successfully reversed the condition of hydrops (heart failure).
✅ The pregnancy continued for eight months, and the baby was delivered by a caesarean section.
✅ This is the first case of a successful pregnancy outcome in a case of alloimmunization due to Rh 17 Ag in India and the 8th case in the world.

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Unicef: India among 20 nations with ‘severe child food poverty’ | India News - Times of India
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Jatayu: World’s 1st Asian King Vulture Conservation & Breeding Centre

✅ Uttar Pradesh is set to establish the world’s 1st conservation and breeding centre for Asian king vultures or red-headed vultures in Maharajganj.
✅ The facility will improve the population of critically endangered species listed in the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s red list since 2007.
✅ The centre is named Jatayu Conservation and Breeding Centre.
✅ Asian king vultures are endangered due to the loss of their habitats and the excessive use of diclofenac, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug, in domestic animals, which becomes poisonous for vultures.
✅ The centre aims to ensure the good health of growing Vultures and provide them with a pair.
✅ Once a female lays an egg, the pair will be left free in their natural environment.

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Summer Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere
Key Points:
✅ June 21 marks the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.
✅ Solstices occur twice a year, indicating the shortest and longest daylight hours.
✅ The length of day and night differ significantly on solstice days.
✅ The Northern Hemisphere experiences the longest day and shortest night of the year on June 21.
✅ The Southern Hemisphere experiences summer in December.