More than 5,000 persons turned up at a camp held in Thiruvanathapuram on Friday to find a blood stem cell donor for Sreenandan, a 7-year-old from Anchal in Kollam.
Diagnosed with a rare type of Lukemia, his body has stopped producing blood and requires transfusions at regular intervals. The boy has been undergoing treatment at Amrita Hospital, Kochi, for the last two months and blood stem cell transplant is only option to save his life.
When finding a donor turned out to be an extremely difficult task, an appeal was made through social networking sites that was shared by celebrities and social media influencers, leading to the camp. “A total of 3,800 saliva samples were collected today. Though a lot of elderly persons walked in, we couldn’t take the samples of those who were not from the 18 to 50 age group,” said Sreenandan’s uncle Joy.
