Jia Jias Crisis

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Jia Jias Crisis
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The Cruel Facts

• Leukemia is now the number one child-killing
  disease in China

• More than 40,000 new leukemia cases are diagnosed
  annually

• Every year more than 40,000 patients die

• Half are children and in many cases they are the
  ONLY child under Chinas 1-child policy

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Li Meng Jia (Jia Jia)

• Poor girl from Beijing, 2 ½ years old

• Father, Li Yan from Beijing mother, Meng Qing
  Qin from a small village in Hebei province
• Jia Jia fell ill April this year. She was
  initially misdiagnosed

• She has a rare form of Leukemia acute
  megakaryocytic leukemia (M7)

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Current Situation

• Jia Jia has received three rounds of chemo
  therapy in Peking University First Hospital.

• Currently undergoing 4th round of 8-day chemo
  therapy to destroy remaining leukemic cells in
  preparation for the needed transplant.

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We are now at the critical stage

• Jia Jia needs a cordblood stem cell transplant
  soon after the final chemo therapy

• The hospital has already located a matching donor
  for cordblood stem cells

• Success rate Jia Jia has more than a 50 chance
  if she can receive this critical transplant but
  is unlikely to survive on chemo therapy alone.

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Her parents cry for help
Beijing Youth Daily 28 August 2004 an article
with her parents plea for financial aid.
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Financial hardship

• Jia Jias indigent parents have so far spent over
  RMB 100,000 and have no way to find more

• Fee for transplant, incl. hospitalization for 2-3
  months RMB 300,000

• Complications are likely to occur but are hard to
  predict.

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Many hands lighten the load

• Magic Hospitals volunteer members

• Clubs / Associations / Church
• Individuals

YOU!
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Contacts

• For any questions, please contact
• Magdalena The
• Mob 1380 100 9830
• Email magda.the_at_magichospital.org
• Irene Heng
• Mob 1390 103 3960
• Email iheng_at_public.bta.net.cn

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Thank you
"A hundred years from now it will not matter what
my bank account was, the sort of house I lived
in, or the kind of car I drove....but the world
may be different because I was important in the
life of a child."                                
        A corridor sign in the Boston
Children's Hospital, USA