A man with sickle cell disease, who relies on more than 100 people a year to keep him alive, has been urging Londoners from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds to donate more blood 🫀
A man whose condition leaves him in constant pain has revealed how more than 100 people help to keep him alive.
‘Then since receiving exchanges, that’s dramatically improved, I’m able to have a life, I’m able to do this job [as engagement coordinator for the NHS Blood and Transport team] and stay out of hospital.’According to the NHS, it is a serious and life-long health condition, with symptoms such as painful sickle cell crises, which can be very severe and last for days or weeks, an increased risk of serious infections, and anaemia which can cause tiredness and shortness of breath.
Calvin said: ‘I receive 10 to 11 units of blood every three or four weeks, it’s a lot. It takes roughly 128 people to keep me alive [every year]. ‘When you bare in mind that a disproportionately high number of the Black Asian and Minority Ethnic communities live in London, I think we’ve got a responsibility to support the rest of the country.
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