The humanity is facing dreaded diseases like Cancer, AIDS, Thalassemia, Hepatitis and sickle cell anemia etc. On the one hand the individuals who are suffering from such diseases are struggling hard and in fact fighting against such diseases. On the other hand some of the individuals, who suffer from such dreaded diseases, perhaps goaded by their relatives, with some evil and ulterior motives and out of their anxiousness to live the remnant of their short but grueling life peacefully and preferably with a companion, get married, wantonly concealing from their spouse as to what is ailing them or from what they are suffering from.
In the result, the spouse who gets married, also become a victim and die soon. Sometimes, the children born to them also get carried their diseases hereditarily and become hapless victims. Thus the issue of non-revealing the dreaded diseases before marriage, leads to series of problems like infection, death and sometimes leading to legal battles as to the claim over their children.
To avoid such fateful marriages, peoples have been clamoring for a long time for the pre-marital health screening, so as to avoid plunging into a death-trap unknowingly.
The popular western concept of pre-marital health screening has finally arrived in India with the launch of the ‘Soul to Soul’ package, a collaboration between Bharat Matrimony.com and corporate diagnostic chain Meropolis Health Services in Chennai on Wednesday.Priced at Rs 2,500 for a couple registered with the portal the package has a twin agenda of ensuring transparency in marriages and diagnosing chronic infectious diseases and hemoglobin variants that could cause hereditary disorders.
“The health profilewill contain the comprehensive lab report, which will included test results for dreaded diseases like Cancer, AIDS, Thalassemia, Hepatitis and sickle cell anemia etc.the profile will be completely confidential and the user can decide who views it” says Dr.S.K.Velu, CEO of Metropolis.
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