Central Lecture Halls (CL)
The Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) Health Sciences Faculty, Department of Health Management is organizing a Bone Marrow Donor Registration in collaboration with the Kemal Saraçoğlu Children with Leukemia Foundation.
The event will be taking place on Thursday, the 25th of May 2017, at the EMU Atatürk (CL) Square between 09.00 – 12.00. By giving a sample of saliva, individuals will be able to register to Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide.
The event with the slogan “Every donor is hope, hope is a thousand times happiness” will provide hope for Leukemia patents across the world. A statement released by the Kemal Saraçoğlu Children with Leukemia Foundation indicated that they are searching for TRNC citizens between the ages of 18-45 to be stem cell donors, also stating that these individuals must be healthy individuals that haven’t provided samples for this reason before.
The Kemal Saraçoğlu Children with Leukemia Foundation provides the opportunity for Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide registration via the Cyprus Bone Marrow Archive as a result of their collaboration with the Karaiskakio Foundation. In their statement, the Foundation noted that each year thousands of people, mainly children face problems such as leukemia, lymphoma and other haematological illnesses. Patients that get better after chemotherapy and radiotherapy do not require any other treatment. However for some patients, the serious and difficult stem cell transplantation from parents or voluntary donors is the only treatment method. Thanks to stem cell transplantations many patients have been revived.
The foundation went on to explain that the Cyprus Bone Marrow Archive has the registration of over 125 thousand Cypriot volunteers, stating that this is the world’s largest bone marrow archive according to registration to population ratio. It was also stated that as a member of Bone Marrow Donors Worldwide, the Cyprus Bone Marrow Archive can donate bone marrow to patients worldwide as well as receive worldwide bone marrow donations for Cypriot patients. Further information can be obtained from the Kemal Saraçoğlu Children with Leukemia Foundation website: http://www.kemalsaracoglu.org