Recent research by the doctors at Jaslok Hospital has given hope of treating Parkinson disease. Doctors injected stem cells of the patient in his brain.

Bhanwarlal Jain, 54-year-old has been suffering from advanced Parkinson’s disease for the past seven years. He had great difficulty in walking and talking. Despite medication his condition kept on deteriorating.

On August 8, doctors conducted first clinical trail evaluating the affect of the stem cells on Parkinson disease. In the complex procedure doctors injected small quantities of the stem cells taken from the marrow of the patient's hip bone in an interval of every 1mm in his brain.

These stem cells were first processed for about three weeks at Reliance Life Sciences before being injected into the brain. The cells from patient's own bone marrow were chosen to eliminate the chances of rejection.  

Team of doctors was led by Dr. Paresh Doshi, head of the stereotactic and functional neurosurgery department at Jaslok Hospital. Doctors will monitor patient’s condition for 18 months to certain the success of trail. The patient is already showing improvement as he has regained his voice. (dpa)