PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Staff at the Tomorrow Fund Clinic in Hasbro Children’s Hospital wore matching t-shirts to try and raise awareness for sickle cell disease on Tuesday.
September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month . There are several types of the disease which the CDC says is a kind of inherited blood disorder that can have serious complications.
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Ethel Omondi is the sickle cell nurse coordinator. She says each team member of the Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology received a t-shirt to show their support along with other staff members.
Omondi and two other healthcare workers from the hospital will be traveling to Kenya as part of a collaboration between Brown Health and Indiana University School of Medicine to improve sickle cell care in the African country…