Premarital Screening
Tareen Rahman :
Marriage is considered an important event in a person’s life. Through marriage, a person enters a new phase of building emotional, social and family relations.
In order to establish a happy and stable family, we must guarantee that spouses and posterity are free of infectious and genetic diseases.
If one of the family members has hereditary or infectious disease, this will disturb the family and make them suffer from psychological, social and financial problems, without mentioning medical complications and its effect on the patient, family and society.
Healthy Marriage is a state of harmony between the spouses in health, psychological, sexual, and social aspects in order to create healthy family and having healthy and happy children.
For this, young couples must make Premarital Medical Examinations to prevent blood genetic diseases (thalassaemia gene and sickle-cell anemia) in addition of some contagious diseases (hepatitis B,C and AIDS).
By making these tests, the prospective marriage partners will know beforehand about the possible genetic diseases that their children might inherit. This knowledge broadens their choices and becomes possible to give them valuable medical advices.
Healthy Marriage Programme is considered as an important event in national and social life with a view to preventing the spreading of certain genetic blood diseases (thalassaemia gene
and sickle-cell anemia) and some contagious diseases (hepatitis B,C and AIDS).
It also reduces financial burdens, resulting from treatment costs, on families and society, reduce pressure on health institutions and blood banks, avoid social and psychological problems for families with affected children, make it easier for those who feel impressed to ask for such examinations and raise awareness of healthy marriage concept.
It is to be noted that each year such impotent global events like, the World Thalassaemia day (May 8) and World Sickle cell day are observed in May 8 and June 19 respectively. Researchers say these genetic diseases have brought to light the importance of premarital screening as a modern day tool to prevent the spread of genetic diseases.
Marriage is considered an important event in a person’s life. Through marriage, a person enters a new phase of building emotional, social and family relations.
In order to establish a happy and stable family, we must guarantee that spouses and posterity are free of infectious and genetic diseases.
If one of the family members has hereditary or infectious disease, this will disturb the family and make them suffer from psychological, social and financial problems, without mentioning medical complications and its effect on the patient, family and society.
Healthy Marriage is a state of harmony between the spouses in health, psychological, sexual, and social aspects in order to create healthy family and having healthy and happy children.
For this, young couples must make Premarital Medical Examinations to prevent blood genetic diseases (thalassaemia gene and sickle-cell anemia) in addition of some contagious diseases (hepatitis B,C and AIDS).
By making these tests, the prospective marriage partners will know beforehand about the possible genetic diseases that their children might inherit. This knowledge broadens their choices and becomes possible to give them valuable medical advices.
Healthy Marriage Programme is considered as an important event in national and social life with a view to preventing the spreading of certain genetic blood diseases (thalassaemia gene
and sickle-cell anemia) and some contagious diseases (hepatitis B,C and AIDS).
It also reduces financial burdens, resulting from treatment costs, on families and society, reduce pressure on health institutions and blood banks, avoid social and psychological problems for families with affected children, make it easier for those who feel impressed to ask for such examinations and raise awareness of healthy marriage concept.
It is to be noted that each year such impotent global events like, the World Thalassaemia day (May 8) and World Sickle cell day are observed in May 8 and June 19 respectively. Researchers say these genetic diseases have brought to light the importance of premarital screening as a modern day tool to prevent the spread of genetic diseases.
