The Gift of Life: Inspiring Stem Cell Donor Stories

Empanelment of transplant centre (TC) with DATRI is an essential process that ensures if a respective centre meets predefined criteria as per WMDA(World Marrow Donor Association) Standard 1.07. This evaluation process also ensures that the donation of...

An 11-year-old female patient with Thalassemia Major was referred to DATRI in Sep 2021 by a transplant centre (TC) physician for HLA matched blood stem donor search request for a transplant. Our search team did a preliminary search from our database and found a...

When I got the call informing me that I was found to be a stem cell match, I wasn’t entirely convinced. Was this a legitimate request, was there any commercial angle to this, would they take my bone marrow? I spoke to a colleague who had lost his wife to cancer – for...

First of all, I take this opportunity to congratulate Team DATRI for completing 1000 collections, which means they have given second chance to 1000 patients. This is absolutely a proud moment for DATRI and happy that I am part of this achievement. Below is my Blood...

I first came to know about DATRI Blood Stem Cell Donors Registry, when I was attending the awareness session which was organised by Aby Sam John and his team. Aby was leading the team that organized a stem cell donor registration drive at my organisation UST in Kochi,...

Have you ever heard of Thalassemia?  Thalassemia is a blood disorder involving lower-than-normal amounts of an oxygen-carrying protein. Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder characterised by less oxygen-carrying protein (haemoglobin) and fewer red blood cells in...

Faris Yousuf was pursuing his engineering at National Institute of Technology, Calicut, when he was registered as a potential Blood Stem Cell Donor with DATRI, India’s largest Blood Stem Cell Donors Registry; during a donor registration campaign conducted by National...

India is a land of festivals, and each festival is a celebration of life. So, during this festival of colours, let us pledge to bring joy and colour in the life of a patient suffering from blood cancer or blood related disorder by registering with DATRI as a potential...

Thanigasalam Arumugam from Histogenetics India Pvt Ltd has been working as a system administrator for the past ten years. In 2013, when DATRI organised a Blood Stem Cell donor registration drive in their office, he registered himself as a potential blood stem cell...

On World Cancer Day, take a pledge with DATRI, India's largest Blood Stem Cell Donors Registry, to step forward and register with us. Many patients with blood cancer and blood-related disorders cannot survive without a lifesaving Blood Stem Cell Donation. We live in a...

As we drew close to the end of 2021, DATRI India’s largest Blood Stem cell Donors Registry, got an opportunity to organize three Blood Stem Cell Donor Registration Drive and a camp to create awareness about Blood Stem Cell Transplant that can help any patient...

“Ma’am, my wife also wants to register with DATRI as a blood stem cell donor” – the words by the donor Raghuvir Singh. Since his second daughter is only two months old, and we recommended to register Suman (donor’s wife) after his younger daughter, Bani, turns two...

Darasing Khurana attained international recognition when he was appointed as Mister India International 2017 and went on to represent India at Mister International. After that, the model turned actor became a celebrity in the country and he used that influence of his...

ALL IS WELL THAT ENDS WELL, THE STORY OF TWO THALASSEMIA SIBLINGS SUSWATI AND ARIJIT In 2012, Satyendra Nath Maity and his wife Rumpa Maity gave birth to a baby girl. Everything came to a standstill when they learnt of the shocking news, that their daughter Suswati is...

——————————————————————————————————————————————————————Story #50 of 50 days, 50 Stories Campaign—————————————————————————————————————————————————————— World Marrow Donor Day(WMDD) is a special day celebrated third Saturday of September to thank all blood stem cell...

——————————————————————————————————————————————————————Story #49 of 50 days, 50 Stories Campaign—————————————————————————————————————————————————————— First of all, I would like to thank DATRI for giving me this fantastic opportunity to showcase my talent and provide...

——————————————————————————————————————————————————————Story #48 of 50 days, 50 Stories Campaign—————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Shruti Geol, a 20 years old student, registered herself as a voluntary Blood Stem Cells Donor in Gateway College...

——————————————————————————————————————————————————————Story #47 of 50 days, 50 Stories Campaign—————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Abhijeet, an a young 20 years old boy from Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh, had registered with DATRI at Chandigarh...

——————————————————————————————————————————————————————Story #46 of 50 days, 50 Stories Campaign—————————————————————————————————————————————————————— In 2013, a blood stem cell donors registration camp was organized by DATRI with the villagers of Kunghar (Patan...

——————————————————————————————————————————————————————Story #45 of 50 days, 50 Stories Campaign—————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Akshya from Coimbatore found her Superhero Kaushikbhai Patel from Surat! Kaushikbhai Mehedrabhai Patel, a 33 year old...