AS THE world observes International Childhood Cancer Day (ICCD) today, an appeal has gone out to South Africans to become stem cell donors, to help save the lives of children like Preshthi Ishwarlal, 5.
Preshthi, from KwaZulu-Natal, was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic keukaemia, a type of blood cancer that affected the bone marrow, white blood cells, red blood cells and blood platelets.
She was diagnosed in 2021 when she was just 2 years old, and had been in remission for 18 months.
Her mother, Arthie Ishwarlal, received the news that despite undergoing inpatient treatment, her child experienced a relapse earlier this year.
Arthie had been unable to speak to the media about her daughter’s plight as the child battled on, but has now appealed for a stem donor to come…
