The Anthony Nolan Trust, a UK blood cancer charity, collect blood stem cells from donors to help those in need of a life saving stem cell transplant and on average provide two transplants a day which demonstrates the value added of this medical technology.
According to Anthony Nolan, a suitable donor can only be found for around half the people who need a life-saving bone marrow transplant.
Some studies show that up to 80percentt of those who receive the implants never need a life-saving shock, although many of them suffer occasional unnecessary jolts.
This is not the way heroin addicts act; it's the way people who need a life-saving, if habit-forming, medicine behave.
According to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), the non-profit organization that manages the US organ transplant system, there are 117,000 waiting list candidates who need a life-saving organ transplant.
This then denies those patients who really need blood for life saving interventions [ 8].
Children from conflict hit areas urgently need life saving health services TAKKAR, Mardan District, Pakistan, 16 July 2009 – It is sweltering and overcrowded in the Government Higher Secondary School in Takkar, which is now home to 106 displaced families from conflict-hit areas of Swat and Buner districts in north-west Pakistan.
I had visited these children who needed life saving care, even grew friendly with one in particular, a 12- year old boy named Marco.
What is needed now is life saving support and care for children in Haiti.
South Sudan, 18 December 2014: A mother's nightmare Ethiopia, 15 December 2014: One year on – South Sudan refugee children still in need of life saving support South Sudan, 16 December 2014: Give peace a chance.
