Despite a successful transplant operation, which
was performed on Hardish's birthday on January 22, the mum of three
contracted PTP, an infection which affects the liver and the production
of platelets. She died in the Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton.
As part of their campaign, Hardish's family
organised a blood donor session at the Nanak Community Centre in Croydon
to find a suitable bone marrow match from the Indian and south Asian
community.
According to the Anthony Nolan Trust less than
three per cent of registered potential donors are Asian.
But despite not finding a match for their mum
during the drive, the family's campaign did pair up another cancer
sufferer and a suitable bone marrow match.
Pavan added: "This was something that was a real
surprise to us because everything had gone so well.
"Leukaemia is a vicious type of cancer. As the
Asian community grows bigger, the chance somebody will be affected by
this or any type of cancer or disease that involves a transplant, will
get bigger. If people remain blind and say this won't happen to me it
won't help."
Pavan and his sisters, Tavneet and Sukheev, are
planning to do more work to encourage more people from ethnic minority
backgrounds to come forward as blood and organ donors.
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The above information is taken from the website of the Croydon Guardian
Details of the original appeal
for Hardish appear below: