UK based charity Desi Donors are urgently calling for members of the Asian community to come forward and save the lives of Asian patients who are desperately waiting to find a suitable bone marrow donor. One patient who needs to find a donor urgently is 10 year old Amun Ali who lives in the Small Heath area of Birmingham.

Desi Donors which launched earlier this year is proactively helping people like Amun Ali find the right match so they can help them live, however there are not enough Asians on the register so matches are not being found.

Amun Ali has a rare condition known as Severe Immune Deficiency. It is a condition that makes Amun very weak, for example: If Amun were to get a minor infection it could be extremely life threatening. Over the years Amun has been in (H.D.U) High Dependency Unit on many occasions, where minor infections such as chickenpox have got worse and put him in quite a bad state of health.

A special clinic will be held in Birmingham on Sunday 25th October 2009. The clinic will be an opportunity for Asians in the West Midlands to come and join the bone marrow register. The more Asians joining the register will mean the more chance of saving the lives of people like Amun. Sadly Amun has already lost a 4-year-old brother to the same condition because a suitable match could not be found.