Ethical Consideration on Miracle in Poor Prognosis Diseases
Sukhit Phaosavasdi MD*, Boonchai Uerpairojkit MD*, Manopchai Tamkonto MD*, Chumsak Prugsapong MD*, Aurchart Karnjanapitak MD*
Affiliation : * Member of Medical Association of Thailand
Since 1991, The Thai National Blood Bank of the Thai Red Cross Society, has been working on banking
fetal liver and cord blood stem cells. The numbers of banking stem cells have been reported to be 260 units,
some of them were given to the patients, such as Leukemia, Congenital immunodeficiency diseases and Bone
marrow diseases with positive response(1). In the future, less than 10 years, according to the above evidenced-
base review, we expect that, a number of acute and chronic deliberating diseases will be treated differently and
successfully. They may be named as Diabetes mellitus, Senile dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s
disease, Coronary heart disease, Malignancy, Rabies, Myocardium infarction, Repair of tissue and parts of
broken organs(2).
The above statement is far beyond present knowledge and cannot make us belief. Its success must be
only “MIRACLE” and much fiscal budget has been spent on them in vain. If it becomes available to those
patients with bad prognosis it will turn them to be back to normal and also to perform their daily life. Millions of
disabled people will do good to the society again. The nowadays treatments that we are used to their will not
be seen anymore in the next 10 years.
The promising researches of miracle treatments are very difficult and also troublesome to carry out. It
consumes high budget, time and also consistency. Most people do not believe in miracle, but a group of
physicians and scientists have been working hard. They have never been given to the promise of success,
unfortunately they completely lack of all supports even moral. At present, with the firm state policy on:
“Bio-nanotechnology Researches”, these groups of researchers have seen the light at the end of the tunnel(3).
The Thai group of researchers has been working on these issues since 1991, with good connection of
working in laboratory among people of Korean National University, Stamford University and Birmingham
University(4).
Their ultimate gold in researches aims for the best in treatment for the patients, not just for the academic excellence. They simply wish to apply their success in research to all with equality and equity(5-9).
Keywords : Miracle, Poor prognosis, Stem cell
