Mr. Gaurav Tandon, an alumnus of Batch of 1999-2001/ Marketing Specialisation at SPJIMR.
He is suffering from Leukemia (Blood Cancer/ AML type).
Gaurav was recently diagnosed with Leukemia (Blood Cancer/ AML type). He is currently admitted at Hinduja Hospital, Bombay; undergoing Round 2 of Chemotherapy. The doctors have advised Bone Marrow Transplant as the only possible solution to his current predicament.While the doctors are working on finding the matching bone marrow donor for the said operation, Gaurav and his family are working on raising the relevant finances.
The latest update on Gaurav’s health is that the sibling bone marrow test results came out last Wednesday. Unfortunately, these don’t match, i.e., Gaurav can’t receive the transplant from either of his two sisters. The only plausible solution now remaining is to find a neutral, un-related allogenic transplant donor. While there are a few, small bone-marrow banks in India , the serious and credible options reside in US, UK and Singapore .
Gaurav’s current doctor at Tata Hospital , Bombay will soon start the process of registering his request for a compatible donor at these overseas banks. The cost of retrieving the overseas bone-marrow and subsequently conducting the operation is c. INR 15-20Mn (c. USD 300,000-400, 000).
Please note that out of a target of Rs 1.5 crore for the operation only 31 lakhs have been collected by 25th Jan, 2009
The target date to collect the full amount is 15-Feb-2009
You can update yourself about Gaurav’s condition in http://www.helpgaurav.com/index.asp
Requesting people to either spread the message or to contact the relevent people for sending the donations throught the web-site.
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