Nine-year-old boy, who relapsed with blood cancer, receives Rs 20 lakh for transplant
The bone marrow transplant costs around Rs 50 lakh, and Rs 20 lakh has been raised so far.
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Aditya Nair, 9, does not know he has blood cancer and that it has relapsed.
There has been increasing support for nine-year-old Aditya Nair who has relapsed with blood cancer and needs a bone marrow transplant that costs nothing less than Rs 50 lakh to save his life. The Indian Express had published a report dated February 11 that highlighted the nine year old’s plight following which well wishers have contributed a sum of Rs 20 lakh.
Aditya was detected with blood cancer when he was two years old. He was given all the required chemotherapy and medication. However it did not cure the cancer. Now he requires to undergo allogenic bone marrow transplant as a life saving treatment. Since there was no matching donor in the family, Dr Vijay Ramanan, haematologist contacted Bharat Stem Cell registry set up in Gurgaon and they were able to zero in on an unrelated matching donor — both from the US and another from France. The transplant cost however works out to an approximate Rs 50 lakh, Ramanan had told The Indian Express.
While the Indian Express report attracted a host of enquiries, Aditya’s father Rajesh Nair and Dr Ramanan also attached links on their respective facebook pages. According to Nair, a page was created on Facebook and also on https://www.giveforward.com/fundraiser/wnp7 . Both the facebook pages displayed the Indian Express story and a grateful father wrote to this reporter stating that till date they have received Rs 20 lakh. “There is still a deficit of Rs.20 Lacs to be covered and we have been promised financial assistance from tech companies,” Nair said.
An amount of Rs 1 Lakh each was donated by Dr.K.L.GARG Memorial Charitable Trust, Lucknow and another Rs 1 Lakh was donated by Dhun and Maneck Shroff Memorial Trust, M.G.Road, Dhirajlal Talakchand Shah Charitable Trust and several others who have also contributed towards Aditya ‘s account, Nair said.
Regarding the donor, fresh blood samples from France has arrived in New Delhi on February 18 and the confirmatory report is awaited before February 28. The overall formalities of the donor will be completed within 30 days and then the transplantation is likely to take place in the first week of April. Every Friday as per the protocol, Aditya has to be given Chemotherapy as he is on maintenance phase till the donor formalities are not completed.
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