On World Blood Cancer Day, May 28, we held an event in Poreč, in the area of the Valamar Diamant Hotel, where the citizens of Poreč once again showed their humane side and responded in large numbers, and enriched the Croatian Register of Voluntary Donors of Hematopoietic Stem Cells with 402 new potential donors. The Ana Rukavina Foundation held this registration campaign in the Croatian register to help find a matching unrelated donor for a two-year-old boy suffering from acute myeloid leukemia and in memory of the girl Lana who unfortunately left us too soon, but also for all sick people who are waiting for their matching donor. We are touched, happy and grateful that such a large number of people beat for three hours with one heart full of love, emotions and desire to help their little fellow citizen. The father of the sick boy was also at the event, he helped with the registration, hiding his emotions when he saw the sea of citizens standing and patiently waiting in line. He thanked to all the citizens who came to register and help his son. He thanked Ana Rukavina’s mother, Marija Rukavina, the Ana Rukavina Foundation, the City of Poreč and its citizens, the Management of the Diamant Valamar Hotel, all the employees of the Valamar Hotel, and all the doctors and medical personnel who take care of his two-year-old son. We are extremely grateful to Mrs. Sanja Krizmanić for the initiative to organize the joint action of the Ana Rukavina Foundation and Hotel Valamar. We thank the Diamant Valamar Hotel Management for their exceptional support. We would like to thank Dr. Dijana Beaković and nurses Sabrina Turković, Jelena Momić, Melanija Buljan, Sarah Jurković Levak and Dona Banović who selflessly helped us in taking samples, and a special big thank you to our nurse Džena, who has been with us for all 18 years of the Foundation’s activity and work. We thank everyone who responded, rushing from work or to work, with babies in strollers, or children in hand, with spouses, current or future, alone or with a friend and selflessly put a part of themselves at the disposal of someone who will be grateful to them for it forever.
ON WORLD BLOOD CANCER DAY, THE CROATIAN REGISTRY IS ENRICHED BY 402 POTENTIAL DONORS!!!
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