TN to set up docs panel to evolve affordable plan to tackle LSD

The Tamil Nadu government has informed the Madras High Court it would set up a panel of doctors from various branches of medicine, including Ayurveda, to evolve a plan to combat the rare and potentially fata Lysosomal Storage Disorders (LSDs) at a lesser cost.

LSDs are a group of 40 plus rate, genetic disorders which affect one in about 8,000 live births. A patient with LSD not only develops physical deformation in cell structures, but these cells often die resulting in a wide variety of clinical symptoms, according to petitioner LSD Support Society of India.

It has sought a high court direction to the Tamil Nadu health department to ensure free, uninterrupted and definitive treatment to the patients suffering from the disease.

During the hearing of the petition before a division bench of Justices Vineek Kothari and C V Karthikeyan, Advocate General Vijay Narayan submitted that the treatment would cost Rs 4-5 lakh per month per patient and as of now, there were 132 patients in Tamil ..