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Hope revived

(BBC 15/02/2009)

Prakriti Virdi has needed monthly blood transfusions since she was four-months-old. She has beta thalassaemia major - where the body is unable to produce red cells containing normal haemoglobin to carry oxygen in the body. Today, thanks to a bone marrow transplant from her sister Shagun, Pakrikiti is free of the medical procedures that have always ruled her life.

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