Help 7-Year-Old Owais Whose Organs Will Start Failing Without An Urgent Bone Marrow Transplant

“After his blood transfusion, we always ask him how he’s feeling, and he replies with a thumbs up. We felt a bit better after that. Now, however, he tells us that he feels extremely tired. That scares me the most. While his mind is strong, his body seems to be giving up. I feel like I’m losing a little bit of my son every day,” says Sujathullah, Owais's father.

Owais has a life-threatening blood disorder that is slowly damaging his vital organs. He needs to undergo a bone marrow transplant at the earliest to survive. If delayed, Owais might not make it to his eighth birthday next year.

Owais has stopped growing because of his disorder

Mohammed Owais has been diagnosed with a serious blood disorder called Fanconi’s Anemia, a condition in which the production of blood cells stops in the body. 7-year-old Owais weighs less than his younger sister who is only 3-years-old. He is also the same height as her. He hasn’t gained weight or grown in the last 2 years. His worried father took him to doctor when he noticed that Owais’s skin had turned almost yellow and he had black patches all over his body.