MIDLAND – Midland Memorial Hospital is now collecting new born baby’s umbilical cord blood.
The Hospital says that umbilical cord blood has a plethora of cells that make blood which can be used to treat such illnesses as leukemia and lymphoma as an alternative to waiting for a bone marrow transplant, which could take years or never come at all.
Midland Memorial Hospital is now the 12th to join the Texas Cord Blood Bank, which collects and stores cord blood.
The great thing about storing blood through the hospital is that its completely free to donate your baby’s stem cells where other storage facilities charge a lot of money to extract and store the cord blood.