Chen Chen, a client manager at the Agricultural Bank of China in Wuxi, has become the 40th hematopoietic stem cell volunteer donor in the city.
During April, Chen received a call from the Wuxi Red Cross, saying that her blood condition matches to a man in South Korea suffering from blood disease. The consistency rate of hematopoietic stem cells between Chinese and Korean people matching is about one in a 100,000.
“I have been very fortunately.” Chen said.
The 30-year-old mother said her parents were once worried about the donation at the very beginning; however, accepted it after experts explained how bone marrow can now be harvested by peripheral blood harvest instead of the original bone marrow harvesting, thus rendering no impact on the health of the donor.
On July 6, Chen donated her hematopoietic stem cells at the Hematology Department of Zhongda Hospital in Nanjing.
The hematopoietic stem cells of Chen were then transferred to Seoul, after handover procedures were completed between the Chinese representatives and the South Korean counterpart, to proceed with a relay of life, on July 11.
