German donor gives new lease of life to Iraqi girl

As doctors in her country gave up, Banin’s family approached doctors here in India.

New Delhi: A 15-year-old Iraqi girl suffering from a rare bone marrow failure syndrome got a new lease on life after she received stem cells from an unrelated German donor. Doctors at a private hospital in Faridabad, where the girl underwent the procedure, claimed that this was the first case in Delhi NCR, where a patient suffering from of severe aplastic anemia was treated with a matched unrelated donor (MUD) stem cell transplant with donor cells from international database.