Ghana UK Based Achievement Awards Appeals For Bone Marrow Donations

Dennis Gyamfi, a 22 year old living in South London was sadly diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) in January 2010. He is currently undergoing chemotherapy treatments but there is concern by consultants at St. Georges Hospital that he may need an unrelated bone marrow donor to save his life.

Unfortunately, his younger siblings do not have matching bone marrow tissue to his. 8 year old Rose-Anne Ofori lives in Dagenham and was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia (AML) in June 2011. Rose-Anne completed her treatments in November 2011 but suffered a relapse of the cancer in March 2012. Rose-Anne urgently needs to find a matching bone marrow donor Dennis and Rose-Anne urgently need your help and support.

The CEO and founder of GUBA, Dentaa said; “We hope to find matching donors for Dennis and Rose-Anne and we URGENTLY need the support of the community to come along and register as donors. Although this is an appeal on behalf of Dennis and Rose-Anne, we want members of the general public to come along on the 2nd June at Choice FM studios to see if they could match anyone of any ethnicity awaiting a life -saving donor”

The Ghana UK Based Achievement Awards (GUBA) is leading this campaign by raising awareness and encouraging as many people as possible to help and support the initiative. This area is of great interest because GUBA believes that children should have access to healthcare and other necessary amenities.

GUBA’s Children’s Foundation focuses on the wellbeing of children and young people which is why Dennis and Rose-Anne’s condition is of great concern to GUBA. We are working alongside the ACLT to help encourage people to sign up and donate bone marrow and blood to help Leukaemia patients

An annual bone marrow and blood recruitment session is being held at the Choice FM Studios (Global Radio) in Leicester Square WC2H 7LA on Saturday the 2nd June. From 11am-4pm.

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