Generally speaking, do children with hemophilia go to regular schools in India and join the mainstream society?
With enough care, support and encouragement, children with hemophilia should be going to school like normal kids because this is only a disorder and not a disease. But unfortunately in India schools often refuse admission for hemophiliac children fearing medical emergencies or complications while the child is in school. Hence parents hide the fact that the child is hemophiliac and admit them in schools. Caught in this vicious cycle is the unfortunate child with a serious bleeding disorder unable to cope with the rigorous demands at school, which would leave even a normal child, drained. For instance unknowingly teachers subject these children to the routine punishment of standing outside the class for two hours, kneeling in the hot sun or running five times around the school ground. Many cases reported in the news papers of a child dying after the teacher hit him on the head, a child dying after kneeling for hours in the sun have all been hushed up later. Most of these children were he
