Darshan closes his eyes and clenches his fists tightly as he waits for the needle to pierce his skin. The pain is disturbingly familiar, but he still winces when it takes over his small body. Every two weeks, Darshan has to get a blood transfusion or he will die due to a condition called thalassemia, which produces dangerously less amounts of haemoglobin in his body. But now, his arms have been pricked so much that doctors struggle to even find a healthy vein. These transfusions were prolonging his life, but even they have become impossible now. Only an urgent bone marrow transplant can save this child, but his poor mother does not have enough money for the relatively affordable transfusions, let alone the expensive transplant.Darshan may only be 8-years-old, but he has already gone through more pain than most adults do in their entire lifetimeDarshan was diagnosed with Thalassemia, a disorder that affects the capacity of blood cells to carry oxygen when he was barely 5-months-old.
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