India, April 15 -- World Haemophilia Day will be observed on April 17. India's fight against the disease needs many fixes.

Picture this: A 10-year-old child from a small village in India, with swollen and stiff joints, bleeds at the slightest injury. Every time this happens, panicked parents travel to a distant hospital. If they're lucky, the doctors there know why the child is prone to regular bleeds. If they are not, that's a far more tragic story. Let's assume that the doctors know the child is one of the roughly 1,300 children who are born with haemophilia every year in India. The 10-year-old gets an emergency infusion which is episodic or on demand treatment. This form of treatment is often not enough if the bleeding recurs, which i...