Doctor Kaanthan Jawahar has donated his bone marrow to a stranger in an attempt to save their life.
The 26-year-old Loughborough doctor is now encouraging more people from Asian backgrounds to step forward and join the bone marrow register.
Kaanthan joined Anthony Nolan’s register eight years ago, when Kings’s College London university volunteering group KCL Marrow were recruiting students to the bone marrow register.
He said: “I joined up on the spot because it sounded like something everyone should do. At the time, they told me I had a higher chance of being called up because I am Asian and there aren’t enough donors from ethnic minority backgrounds on the register.”
Ann O’Leary, head of register development at Anthony Nolan, said: “Kaanthan has done an incredible and selfless thing … We urgently need more people from Asian backgrounds to step forward and sign up as potential lifesavers, just like Kaanthan did.”
