Ko Tsang-ming says that because Taiwanese people are working ever more closely with their doctors, there has been a sharp drop in the annual number of children born with severe thalassemic anemia. Twenty years ago, almost 40 people with severe thalassemia were born every year; in recent years the number has dropped to less than four.
柯滄銘表示，由於國人的配合度越來越高，每年生下重型貧血的數字大幅降低，二十年前每年有近四十位患者出生，近年則不到四位。