{"id":6164,"date":"2013-11-21T14:21:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T14:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/11\/21\/joy-for-gauravs-parents\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T13:36:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T13:36:25","slug":"joy-for-gauravs-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/21\/joy-for-gauravs-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Joy for Gaurav&#8217;s Parents!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Gaurav finally finds a donor<\/h3>\n<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"3\" height=\"225\" border=\"1\" align=\"middle\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Gaurav-Bains-460x225.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span>After months of campaigning to increase awareness for Asian donors, the parents of 2-year-old Gaurav Bains found happiness after a bone marror match was found.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span>The battle to find a donor became mainstream headline news in September, after Gaurav\u2019s parents Sunny and Gurprit struggled to find Asian Donors for their son. Using social media and blogs, Gaurav\u2019s parents campaigned relentlessly to create overall awareness for the lack of Asian donors.<\/span>\u00a0  <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span>Gaurav was diagnosed with the condition in June. Medical professionals told Gaurav\u2019s parents that he will become seriously ill if he did not have a transplant by Christmas by developing an aggressive form of child leukaemia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span>The Bains campaign to find the son a donor inspired a 20-fold rise in Asian donors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span>Gaurav\u2019s Father, Sunny after hearing the news said: \u201cWhen we were told that there was a matching donor, we just couldn\u2019believe it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOur feelings towards Gaurav\u2019s donor are overwhelming because that person is giving Gaurav such an important gift. If I could, I would go to meet Gaurav\u2019s donor right not and give them the biggest hug in the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaurav finally finds a donor &#13; After months of campaigning to increase awareness for Asian donors, the parents of 2-year-old Gaurav Bains found happiness after a bone marror match was found. &#13; The battle to find a donor became mainstream headline news in September, after Gaurav\u2019s parents Sunny and Gurprit struggled to find Asian Donors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}