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| Sohil Morar |
After 10 years of marriage Ajay and Lea Morar were blessed with the
birth of their baby boy Sohil Morar born on the 15th of February 2011.
Sohil is an active, happy and intelligent baby. On the 26th of July 2012 he was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia despite this he maintains his good spirit.
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is cancer that starts inside bone
marrow, the soft tissue found inside bones that helps form blood cells.
The cancer grows from cells that would normally turn into white blood
cells. Acute means that the disease develops quickly.
Currently Sohil is undergoing treatment at the Red Cross War Memorial
Children’s Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. He urgently requires a
bone marrow donor and his doctors have already searched local and
international registries and have not found a match. The odds of finding
a donor is 1 in 100 000 and considering South Africa has only 65 000
registered donors this is a difficult process. Sohil needs to find a donor and have the transplant done in the next 4 to 6 weeks.
The question posed to you: are you prepared to be a donor for Sohil
only or are you prepared to be a National donor who is willing to help
anyone who may need a donor?
For further details on how you can help Sohil and others please visit www.bonemarrowforsohil.co.za or The Sunflower Fund alternatively you can contact Mandy Munthree on 083 789 2465 or email info@bonemarrowforsohil.co.za.
It would be greatly appreciated if you can share this with family and friends and together we can save Sohil and so many others who require a bone marrow donor.
