Overview

• New Good Clinical Practice Recommendations call for every untested pregnant woman to receive HPLC screening within the first three months.
• Project MUKTA begins with a planned rollout to 10 cities by end‑2025 before scaling to more than 30 through CME sessions and awareness drives.
• Organizers will train 70–80 doctors as master trainers to work with medical colleges, diagnostic centres and professional associations.
• FOGSI leaders urged government bodies to make HPLC a mandatory part of antenatal testing and to expand the effort into public-sector care.
• India’s thalassemia burden cited by organizers includes roughly 100,000–150,000 children living with the disease, 10,000–15,000 annual births and about 42 million carriers.