More than 150 people registered to become blood and bone marrow donors at a charity drive in memory of Imogin Appiah who died of leukaemia earlier this year.
The Afro-Caribbean Leukaemia Trust held the drive in memory of brave seven-year-old Imogin and to try to find a potential donor for two-year-old Nevaeh Green, who was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia on New Year’s Eve.
As an ethnic minority, Nevaeh has only a one in 100,000 chance of finding a match compared with one in five if she was white.
She also has a rare antibody M in her blood, A+, which makes it difficult to source.
A spokeswoman from the ACLT said: “93 people signed up to be potential bone marrow donors and 62 signed up to be blood donors. We were pleased with the turn out but there are still a lot of people out there who can become donors and we would encourage them to look at our website for dates of future drives.”
For more information go to aclt.org.
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