Urgent call for blood donors from Hong Kong’s black community and people of African descent for sickle cell patient with rare blood group

Amy Ansaba is well aware of the heartache and stress caused when families are separated by Covid-19. She is based in London, but her brother lives in Hong Kong, where he is battling a life-threatening sickle cell crisis that has highlighted the urgent need for blood donations from the city’s black population.“He’s a young father who has had one transfusion, and may need another within the next two weeks, so we need to call on the black population to give,” she says on the phone from the British…

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