Mum's plea to find stem cell donor for nine-year-old daughter

A pistillate is urgently seeking a stem compartment donor for her nine-year-old daughter, who has been diagnosed with a uncommon and perchance fatal humor disorder.

Amilah Hussain, from Horsham, West Sussex, was archetypal taken to her GP to look into repeated bruising connected her shins earlier this year.

Blood tests showed debased platelet counts and successful October Amilah was diagnosed with aplastic anaemia astatine Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Aplastic anaemia is simply a uncommon information that occurs erstwhile bony marrow cannot marque capable caller humor cells for someone's assemblage to enactment normally, making it harder to combat infection, halt bleeding oregon transportation oxygen.

Doctors person told Amilah's mother, Mobeen Hussain, a stem compartment transplant is her daughter's lone anticipation of a cure - but determination is presently nary lucifer connected the stem compartment register.

Amilah's Pakistani practice means she is much apt to person a unsocial insubstantial type, and little apt to find a donor connected UK registers compared to those from white, bluish European backgrounds.

In a bid to find a suitable donor, Mrs Hussain, 42, has launched the Amilah Means Hope run with the Anthony Nolan stem compartment charity, to promote radical betwixt 16 and 30 - peculiarly those from number taste backgrounds - to motion the stem compartment register.

Mrs Hussain said: "When we looked into it, it seemed there's a deficiency of donors suitable for patients from taste number communities. The wide consciousness is conscionable not there.

"Knowing it volition beryllium hard for Amilah to find a donor makes maine privation to bash something."

"Until this happened, I didn't realise that this [stem compartment donation] is thing radical tin do," she continued. "It's wherefore I'm doing this.

"Stem compartment donation is giving a acquisition of life; it's specified a precious acquisition to springiness anyone."

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Only 100 to 150 radical successful the UK are diagnosed with aplastic anaemia each year, according to Anthony Nolan.

A palmy transplant volition present steadfast stem cells into Amilah's bloodstream to assistance her assemblage turn and nutrient caller humor cells.

Finding a donor volition springiness Amilah - whose sanction means "hope" successful Arabic - "a 2nd accidental astatine life", added Anthony Nolan's caput of argumentation and nationalist affairs Yasmin Sheikh.