​Jivo Connect Clinic - Sickle Cell Disease Joint Consultation Drive

​25 April 2026 | 12:30 PM GMT onwards

​About Jivo Connect Clinic

​Jivo Connect Clinic is a strategic partnership between Jivo and leading Indian hospitals, delivering the expertise of India's top specialists to African healthcare institutions for complex case management. The model enables structured joint consultations, combining international specialist input with local clinical leadership to enhance patient outcomes.

​International Consulting Specialist

​Dr Dharma Choudhary Chairman, Haemato-Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplant, BLK-Max Super Speciality Hospital, New Delhi, India

​Dr Dharma Choudhary is one of India's foremost authorities in Haemato-oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, with over 20 years of experience and more than 2,000 transplants across malignant, benign, and genetic blood disorders. Trained in Clinical Haematology at AIIMS New Delhi, he holds fellowships from CMC Vellore, SGPGI Lucknow, and the British Columbia Leukaemia and BMT Programme at Vancouver General Hospital and BC Cancer Agency, Canada.

​As Chairman of the Bone Marrow Transplant Centre at BLK-Max Super Speciality Hospital, he has built and led one of India's major BMT programmes, with specialised expertise in sickle cell disease, thalassaemia, aplastic anaemia, haplo-identical transplantation, and GVHD management. Through the Jivo Connect Clinic initiative, Dr Choudhary will collaborate with African physicians to provide structured specialist guidance on diagnosis, treatment planning, and transplant decision-making for sickle cell disease and related haematological conditions.

​Who Should Participate

​This initiative is relevant for:

• ​Haematologists and Haemato-oncologists

• ​Paediatricians managing children with sickle cell disease

• ​General Physicians and Internists managing sickle cell patients

• ​General Surgeons managing complications of sickle cell disease

• ​Transfusion Medicine Specialists

• ​Doctors managing patients with genetic or inherited blood disorders

​Suitable Cases

• ​Sickle cell disease requiring specialist evaluation and treatment planning

• ​Patients with recurrent sickle cell crises requiring disease modification or transplant evaluation

• ​Thalassaemia major requiring bone marrow transplant assessment

• ​Aplastic anaemia and bone marrow failure syndromes

• ​Haematological malignancies requiring transplant planning

• ​GVHD management following bone marrow transplantation

• ​Second opinions before bone marrow transplant or cross-border referral

​Consultation Logistics

• ​Consultations will be conducted via Zoom

• ​Ideally, the patient should be present with the consulting doctor during the session

• ​In exceptional circumstances, the patient may join remotely

• ​Language of consultation: English

• ​French interpreter available upon prior request

• ​Case submission deadline: 23 April 2026 | 11:00 PM GMT

​Please share patient case notes, full blood count and haematological investigations, imaging where relevant, genetic and molecular reports where available, prior treatment history, and relevant investigations with your Jivo Coordinator before the submission deadline.

​Objective

​To enable structured case review and high-quality joint consultation on sickle cell disease and haematological disorders, providing patients with evidence-based care guidance while the African physician retains clinical leadership and continuity of care.