Explanation:

Only statements 1&3 are correct.

National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission

Recently Prime Minster Narendra Modi launched National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Mission to eliminate it by 2047.

• National Sickle Cell Anaemia Elimination Program was introduced in the Union Budget 2023.

• Mission: To improve care of all Sickle Cell Disease patients for their better future and to lower the prevalence of the disease through multi-faced coordinated approach towards screening and awareness strategies

Objectives of the Mission

• Provision of affordable and accessible care to all SCD patients,

• To ensure quality of care for SCD patients and

• To reduce the prevalence of SCD.

• It focuses on eliminating sickle cell disease, particularly among tribal populations of the country.

• It is part of the National Health Mission (NHM), aims to eliminate sickle cell genetic transmission by the year 2047.

• Over a period of three years, spanning from 2023-24 to 2025-26, the program targets screening approximately 7 crore people aged 0-40 years in affected tribal areas.

• It is implemented in 17 high-focus states across the country.

• Platforms such as monthly Village Health Sanitation and Nutrition Committee (VHSNC) shall be leveraged to make awareness about the disease.

Sickle cell disease (SCD)

• Sickle cell disease is an inherited group of blood disorders that is genetic in nature.

• Red blood cells contain hemoglobin, a protein that carries oxygen.

• Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic single gene disorder causing a debilitating systemic syndrome characterized by Chronic anaemia, Acute painful episodes, Organ infarction and chronic organ damage and Significant reduction in life expectancy.

• SCD is a genetic condition that is present at birth.

• It is inherited when a child receives two genes—one from each parent—that code for abnormal hemoglobin.

Hence option 3rd is correct.