Durban family's plea for help to bone marrow donors to save Baby Mahi's life
Sending lots of love and light to this family...
As a parent, there are innumerable moments where you feel helpless, but you pick yourself up and do what you need to, because you have a little human relying on you to be there, having all the answers and protecting them from everything.
But what happens when you are faced with circumstances that are out of your control? We imagine it must feel like you're drowning and have no one to save you...
The sad reality is that there are many families who feel this way, whether it has to do with financing their family's needs, or worse, finding your baby in a medical dilemma, and you cannot help your child.
The Jithoo family have a beautiful baby girl named Mahi. Four months ago, Mahi was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia, a very rare form of cancer. At just the tender age of eight-months-old, she has spent most of her life in and out of hospital.
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"Her family said she spent most of her life in hospital, where she has been receiving several rounds of chemotherapy to prepare her for a bone marrow stem cell transplant, which she desperately needs to save her life." (IOL)
Unfortunately, it's not easy to get a bone marrow transplant, as only 30% of patients are lucky enough to find a match within their immediate family, and therefore the family is reliant on strangers donating their stem cells for Baby Mahi.
"The remaining 70% often have to look internationally if a local donor is not found. The odds of finding a donor match is 1 in 100 000 but is drastically reduced to 1 in 400 000 for patients of colour. Sadly, this is a problem that registries face globally." (IOL)
To help Baby Mahi, you can either donate towards her Back A Buddy account below or if you are interested in becoming a bone marrow donor, you can sign up on the below link.
Support Baby Mahi by making a donation on BackaBuddy:
https://www.backabuddy.co.za/baby-mahi
Alternatively, make a donation via Snapscan:
https://pos.snapscan.io/qr/baby-mahi
Register to become a bone marrow donor:
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