The artworks completed from the session are now on display for sale at the hospital’s Oxygen Art Gallery to help raise money to support the young patients’ medical needs
“Thalassemia deserves priority in the country’s health agenda,” said Dr. Liza Naranjo, a pediatric hematologist and officer of the advocacy group Thalasse-mia Association of the Philippines. “If you are a Filipino thalassemic patients, the trend is that you get overwhelmed with heart and liver complications by age 10 to13 years.