Message from President ISHBT

Dear Members and Friends,

It gives me great pleasure to welcome members, delegates and esteemed faculty to the 64^th annual conference of the Indian Society of Haematology and Blood Transfusion, the Haematocon 2023 being held in the “Temple City”, Bhubaneswar, Odisha.

The ISHBT was founded in 1959 and now has about 1980 life members. It is the only comprehensive society of clinical and laboratory Hematology and Hemato-oncology in India.

Haematological diseases range from the mundane such as nutritional anemias and malaria, which can be treated easily with low cost medications, to complex illnesses like hemophilia and cancers, which are expensive to manage and unaffordable to the majority of patients in our country. Thus, the scientific program has been well designed to encompass both benign and malignant disorders, with a perfect blend of clinical and laboratory aspects of Haematology and Transfusion Medicine as practised in our country.