A 13-year-old boy in Yushu, Jilin, suffering from aplastic
anemia is doing well because of public blood donations since his
mother had to stop donating more than four years ago.
Wang Tieping, 46, is a laid-off worker who donated 200
milliliters of blood every month for six years. She saw it as the
only way to prolong her son's life because she couldn't afford any
more treatments for him after her husband died of cancer.
But the donations damaged her health, and she had to stop in
early 2003. Local media printed the story of Wang and her son, and
since then, public donations have helped keep him healthy.
(China Daily March 9, 2007)