In a few weeks, Minh Nguyen went from being a healthy child to being in and out of hospital, suffering from a rare blood disease.
Minh Nguyen, 4, has Medullary Aplasia and is waiting for a compatible stem cell donor.
Within weeks, Nguyen watched her only child receiving multiple blood transfusions and being repeatedly hospitalized — even marking her fourth birthday at Sainte-Justine's. Mai Duong, co-founder of Swab The World, went to the media for help when she sought a stem cell donor in 2014. Duong heard about Minh's situation when she came across one of Nguyen's Facebook posts that garnered hundreds of comments and thousands of shares. She says it reminded her of her own public campaign to find a donor in 2014."It's bringing me back to the state of how difficult it is, and how the general public want to help but they don't know anything about it. It's so unfortunate," said Duong.
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