CHILD HEALTH CARE IN INDIA

SC comes to rescue of infant suffering from rare disease

Senior advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, appearing for the child who moved the court through her mother, informed a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan that the only known life-saving treatment for SMA is the FDA-approved zolgensma gene therapy that has demonstrated the potential to halt or reverse the disease if administered within the first two years of life.