URGENT APPEAL TO ANYONE INVOLVED IN MOSQUES IN THE NORTH WEST/YORKSHIRE AREAS We need an appeal by the Imams and a team of volunteers to take swab examples in hope of finding a donor match for poor Rayaan ? If you can help , please contact me on itb075@hotmail or on facebook here . Allah bless you all ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A family has a very poorly son with a rare blood cancer. He requires a bone marrow transplant in order to survive. However, no one in the family is a match and therefore the family are searching for a donor. This is proving to be a real challenge as there are very few people of Asian background on the register. The family are urging people of Asian background (Pakistani, Bengali, Indian, Sri Lankan, Mauritian) to register in a bid to find a match for their son. More information is in the statement below from the family and also this link; bexleytimes.co.uk/news/sick_welling_six_year_old_needs_lifesaving_bone_marrow_transplant_1_2308567 Statement on behalf of Ghazali & Navida Siddiqui, (Parents of Rayaan Siddiqui) Assalamaykum brothers and sisters. I wanted to take a few minutes of your time to appeal on behalf of my sick son Rayaan. Up until 8 weeks ago Rayaan was a fit and healthy 6 year old boy, doing all of the fun things that kids of his age do. At the beginning of May he started getting fevers which were constant and continued unabated for two weeks. Over that period, the GP’s kept telling us that everything appeared fine with him, and that he should bounce back. After two full weeks of fevers we took him to A&E where we got the same message of nothing being obviously wrong with him. They took a blood test and immediately realised that Rayaan was very ill as all his blood counts were very low. Initially we suspected leukaemia, but further testing of his bone marrow revealed that it wasn’t. At the end of 3 weeks he was diagnosed with a rare immunodeficiency disease called HLH, which only affects about half a dozen children each year in the UK. By this time he was so ill that he had to be transferred under emergency ambulance to Great Ormond Street ICU, where he remained on a ventilator for a few days. Alhamdulillah he has improved considerably since that time; he is being treated with chemotherapy and steroids but ultimately his disease can only be cured through a bone marrow transplant. None of his immediate family are a donor match and we are therefore searching for an unrelated donor on the British bone marrow registry. This is what this appeal is about today. Only 6% of donors on the registry are from an Asian background, which means that children like Rayaan have a much lower probability of finding a matching donor. Please register as soon as possible to potentially help save my little boy’s life. The 3 websites for registration areas follows; the first one has the simplest process of sending cheek swabs to your home, deletebloodcancer.org.uk/, anthonynolan.org/ blood.co.uk/ Registration is simple, and only involves a cheek swab through a kit they send to your home. If you are a match for a patient, the donation process is relatively simple and pain free; in 90% of cases it is done through a process similar to a blood transfusion. Remember the Quran says that if you save one life it is as if you have saved the whole of humanity. Jazakallah Khair Ghazali & Navida
Posted on: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 11:25:39 +0000
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