Hyderabad, July 15 -- As the festival of Raksha Bandhan approaches to celebrate the bond between brothers and sisters, a truly heartwarming story has unfolded at KIMS Cuddles Hospital in Kondapur, Hyderabad.
A 10-year-old girl, who went far beyond the tradition of tying a rakhi, donated her stem cells to save the life of her 11-year-old brother suffering from severe aplastic anaemia, a rare and life-threatening blood disorder where the bone marrow stops producing enough blood cells.
According to Dr. Chandana Mareddy, Consultant Paediatric Haematologist, Oncologist, and Bone Marrow Transplant Specialist at KIMS Cuddles, the boy hails from a modest family in Warangal, admitted in hospital when he was running a high fever and had alarmingly ...