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To all friends and well-wishers of Sukriti

Despite all our best efforts, Sukriti passed away on July 24th, 2006 in Singapore. She had gone to Singapore just a week earlier for another cord blood transplant but developed severe cardiac complications. Sukriti had been on chemotherapy fighting against the inevitable since her leukemia relapsed in April, 2006. Her relapse was unfortunate in many ways as it happened just before the one year anniversary of the transplant, when the probability of long-term survival steps up significantly in most cases.

Prior to that, the brave girl that Sukriti was, she had graduated to Class VIII after studying for just 2 months. She had started going to school for under a month when her disease relapsed. The odds were heavily stacked up against her as there was no other alternative but to take her for another cord blood transplant (because there was still no unrelated marrow match for her). She managed to fight this dreadful disease for almost 4 years primarily because of her parent’s dedication and prayers from family and friends like all of you. In fact, she used to write in a diary where she was so thankful of everyone who helped in different ways to make her first transplant possible. She loved her younger brother and parents so much that just a week before she passed away, she wrote in her diary –“I wish to be reborn in the same family with the same parents and the same kid brother.”

We, as Sukriti’s family are all deeply grateful to each one of you for providing support in every possible way during this time of crisis. Although Sukriti couldn’t live, we are determined to make sure that many other children like her at least have all possible access to information and resources. One of things that we really struggled with during her illness was finding the right diagnosis, talking to doctors outside India to seek their counsel, and finding a marrow match for her. We are determined help efforts to build an Indian marrow registry in this regard. We will deliver our support to the organization leading this charge, Matchpia.com (www.matchpia.com), which has already helped several South Asian patients find a match and other resources.

Save Sukriti Fund is a charity organization committed to finding Sukriti a bone marrow match by raising funds for her transplant and increasing the number of donors of all races and backgrounds (especially South Asian donors) on the international bone marrow registry.

Updated on November 06| © 2006 savesukriti.org