Professor, 54 years old, the winner had fought off leukemia eight years ago, but life-threatening disease made a comeback in November. A bone marrow transplant is his only hope, Ambady family led to the social media platform to launch. An international search for a match
Ambady's family started hunting in India only after the greatest record in the world, the National Marrow Donor U.S. "With more than 10 million donors, could not find a match.
He said he had to increase the formation of 15,000 registered donors to form. More than 9 crore of trusts and companies
"Donors testing is expensive and can be a limitation in the search for," says Parekh. To cover expenditure Ambady friends give 2500 rupees per sample.
Recently, friends further narrowed your search to Kochi, Ambady's birthplace, and is expected to reports from the U.S. in about three weeks. India still does not have the technology to HLA testing HDTV, required for immunological compatibility of the donor and the recipient to perform.
"The idea is to make the community of South India, especially from Kerala, use" said Dilip D Souza, to help with the campaign in the city a friend. "She has very little time and so the search for the Malayali community based in Chennai, Bangalore and Delhi take in the coming weeks."
Unlike the city, the search would be, with distribution kits Ambady friends from different parts of the city to prove that voluntary donors. Decentralized in other places
Experts say that, given the ethnic, finding a match for South Asia is difficult. A bone marrow transplant involves matching 10 main game of antigens, collectively called human leukocyte antigens.
"We have a donor group of at least 10 million Indians before people can expect to find a match," said Dr. Sunil Parekh, founder-director of the Registry of Bone Marrow Donors in India.
Sorry that without government support, the databases are difficult to grow and maintain. "In all developing countries, donor registries are funded by the government, but in this case is primarily a private initiative," says Parekh.
