Cutting Hair And Raising Awareness

Foreign, a barber shop is known as a place to get a haircut and Spark conversation. That'S what's happening here at square one at this makeshift barber shop. This makeshift Barbershop was created by Canadian Blood Services and it's Unique because they offer haircuts flowers and a swab, hoping visitors will become a stem cell donor. We'Ve set up a barber shop to attract 17 to 35 year old, diverse males, hopefully, because male registrants on the registry provide a better outcome for patients that are looking for a match. So this is a perfect opportunity for people to register and get on the registry. It takes 10 minutes around. A thousand patients in Canada are waiting for a stem cell transplant like Nipa and Sanjay prajapati's twin taller, Zoe Amisha, the very condition called chronic granulomatous disease or cgd they're actually diagnosed. When they were seven months, they had reoccurring bouts of high fevers vomiting, and you know we thought they were just teething, but it was much more serious and that really the only cure for that condition is a bone marrow transplant. The twins best challenge of finding a donor is that only seven percent of the registry, Canadian Blood cell stem cell registry is of South Asian descent, and we know the general population is much higher. We know that for them to find a match, there's a higher probability. If someone was from the South Asian background, both michen Zoe are genetically identical, which means they both have the same condition. All we need is one donor, one individual who can really help save both of them. If you would like to find out more information and get swab, there's a link on our website citynews.ca under extras for city news, I'm Stella questo