PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Staff at the Tomorrow Fund Clinic in Hasbro Children’s Hospital wore matching T-shirts to try to raise awareness for sickle cell disease on Tuesday.

September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month . There are several types of the disease which the CDC says is a kind of inherited blood disorder that can have serious complications.

Ethel Omondi is the sickle cell nurse coordinator. She says each team member of the Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology received a t-shirt to show their support along with other staff members.

Omondi and two other healthcare workers from the hospital will be traveling to Kenya as part of a collaboration between Brown Health and Indiana University School of Medicine to improve sickle cell care in the African country.

The team is hoping to improve patients’ access to medications that can significantly reduce pain and hospitalizations.

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