Taiping housewife, Chuwa Siok Hong, was at a loss over how to get donors with Group AB Rhesus Positive blood type for her 9 year old son. The son, Ang Boon Kit, has leukaemia and was supposed to undergo a marrow transplant.
Friends of the family soon got to work and via e-mails and text messages via short messaging service (SMS) related the plight of Chuwa's son and appeal for donors. Donors soon responded to these messages and brought relief to the family. Like before in an earlier case involving a Mrs Tan, who had severe postpartum haemorrhage, those magnificent selfless donors responded in great number. Syabas.
At the University Malaya Medical Centre, Boon Kit's father, Mr Ang Chek Chau said that Boon Kit now has seven donors on standby for the marrow transplant operation. A grateful mother, Mdm Chuwa said, “We would like to thank those who spread the news and those who responded.”
Some paper has reported that many who received the SMS thought it was a hoax. And it took a report in the vernacular press to bring forth results.
A M'kini reader also wrote in to say how he and his friends were given the run around by UMMC when they try to respond to the SMS. Read his letter here :: Hospital Clueless that Patient seeks Donors ::
"I would like to relate my own story of what happened when I received that SMS last Thursday. I immediately called a Mrs Chai at the number to verify if it was a genuine call for help. After trying many times, I got through. She spoke Mandarin and said, "Yes, it's for real."
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