‘Maybe he is my third child’: Mother of two in China insists on bone marrow donation to save boy, 5, despite her severe anaemia, inspiring many online


Brave mother needed six months of blood treatment to stave off danger to her own health before making donation. On day of procedure, her husband and two children were at her bedside in support as she helped save someone else’s little boy. — SCMP

A young Chinese mother who donated her bone marrow to save the life of a five-year-old boy has deeply touched people on mainland social media.

Tan Chang, 32, a lawyer from Fuxin in Liaoning province in northeastern China, registered with the China Marrow Donor programme on her son’s second birthday, August 8, 2020, according to a report in The Paper.

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