Anthony Nolan Trust Event
Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP Diane Abbott has today come out in support of an event to increase the number of black and ethnic minority bone marrow donors.
The Anthony Nolan Trust is holding a registration session at the Hackney Empire in association with Newmont Travel to encourage Hackney people to put their names on the bone marrow register. Less than 25,000 people out of the 390,000 people on the Anthony Nolan register are from the black and mixed-parentage community, making it increasingly difficult to locate donors for BME patients suffering with Leukaemia and other bone marrow related illnesses.
Spurred on by the story of 13-year old Carina Cash-Abbey, who lives in Hackney and is seeking a life-saving bone marrow donor, the Anthony Nolan Trust hope to reach out to Hackney residents on the 14th September.
Speaking four days before the event, Diane said:
“I cannot emphasise enough the importance of black and ethnic minority residents getting down to the Hackney Empire on Sunday and learning about the bone marrow register. Experts there will be able to explain the whole process and show how signing up couldn’t be easier. It could mean the difference of life or death for a Leukaemia sufferer.”
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