Three-year-old Leeds sister saved her baby brother’s life

Three-year-old Leeds sister saved her baby brother’s life

A LEEDS mother is appealing for more Asian people to sign up as potential stem cell donors after her baby son’s life was saved by a stem cell transplant from his three-year-old sister.

Zahra Hussain, 29, of Morley, is calling for more people from ethnic minority backgrounds to join the blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan’s register of people willing to be stem cell donors.

The pharmacist’s one-year-old son, Dawud Raza, was saved by a stem cell transplant after he was diagnosed with a very rare genetic condition that causes immunodeficiency when he was just five- months-old.

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