More people needed to donate blood stem cells

Tue, 18 Aug 2020

The number of people signing up to donate blood stem cells during the coronavirus pandemic has dropped by almost half.

The charity DKMS has found less than one percent of UK adults have joined the register since March.

It expects a spike in new blood cancer cases because of a delay in diagnoses caused by the crisis.

54-year-old Gary Kirby from the Isle of Man had been registered as a donor for 6 years before he got the call to help save a life during lockdown:

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