Hematology, also spelled haematology, is the branch of medicine concerned with the study of the cause, prognosis, treatment, and prevention of diseases related to blood. It involves treating diseases that affect the production of blood and its components, such as blood cells, hemoglobin, blood proteins, bone marrow, platelets, blood vessels, spleen, and the mechanism of coagulation. Such diseases might include hemophilia, blood clots (thrombus), other bleeding disorders, and blood cancers such as leukemia, multiple myeloma, and lymphoma

S.C.C.H is the first hospital in Chhattisgarh possessing Haematology and Bone Marrow Transplant Unit with an advanced blood bank.

Physicians specialized in hematology are known as hematologists or haematologists.

Hematologists may specialize further or have special interests, for example, in:

• treating bleeding disorders such as hemophilia and idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
• treating hematological malignancies such as lymphoma and leukemia (cancers)
• treating hemoglobinopathies
• the science of blood transfusion and the work of a blood bank
• bone marrow and stem cell transplantation

WHY IS HAEMATOLOGY IMPORTANT?

Haematology is the specialty responsible for the diagnosis and management of a wide range of benign and malignant disorders of the red and white blood cells, platelets and the coagulation system in adults and children.