Taiwan: Taiwan Bone Marrow Transplantation Association

Member’s description

The members of Taiwan Bone Marrow Transplantation Association are mainly blood related patients and/or patients’ family. TBMTA collects resources from medical help and social support and provides knowledge about care-giving, physical and mental support towards patients.

Organizational objectives and key programs

TBMTA is a patient group with members of patients and patients’ family
• to hold seminars in northern, central and southern Taiwan periodically to educate patients and patient families about updated knowledge about blood related cancers, therapy, new medicines (TKI for CML) and how to care patient during and after therapy.
• to offer telephone hot-line service and face-to-face consultant. Monday to Friday. Non-Medical questions will be answered by volunteers and/or social workers. Medical related professional questions will be transferred to professional doctors and/or pharmacy vendor health care hotline.
• to offer on-site consultant service in professor clinic rooms in hospital. TBMTA volunteer team arranges well-trained and experienced volunteers in professor clinic rooms in hospital to listen to professors together with patients. Whenever patients need, volunteers can explain into details with easy-to-understand language to patients and patient families.
• to publish CML education brochure and/or booklet free of charge to the public
• to PODCAST various topics about blood related cancers.

to hold seminars : 1-2 times every month
to PODCAST : 1-2 times every month