8-year-old Nguyen Ngoc Anh Nhi from Hoa Minh Ward, Lien Chieu District, Da Nang, has put aside a dream of pursuing her studies to undergo long-term treatment for her life-threatening disease: blood cancer.

Nhi is now being treated at the city’s Paediatric and Maternity Hospital

Now, her poor parents are in very desperate need of financial assistance from benevolent philanthropists from both home and abroad to cover the cost of medical treatment for their beloved daughter.

Nhi’s father Nguyen Quoc Hai said his daughter was rushed to hospital when she was only 9 months old for the treatment of septicemia, encephalitis, and gastric hemorrhage. At that time, she was brought back to life thanks to the great efforts by doctors. However 6 years later, Nhi looked emaciated with her incredible weight loss and pale skin.

More recently, Nhi was taken to hospital after an unexpected traffic accident. After a blood and marrow tests, the hospital’s doctors detected that Nhi was suffering from acute myeloid leukemia (AML), which is a type of cancer that affects the bone marrow and blood. This unexpected, devastating blow indeed shocked and deeply saddened her parents.

Nhi is now being treated at the city’s Paediatric and Maternity Hospital. Despite her physical pains, she always shows her smiley face.

Nhi’s family is very poor as his parents earn only a little money from doing unstable jobs. Nhi’s father is earning a little money from working as a security guard at a local beach, and he is now off work to take care of her in the hospital. Meanwhile, his mother left her low-paid job as a sewing worker 2 years ago in order to spend more time taking care of her 2-year-old brother who is suffering from congenital lung abnormalities.

Currently, Nhi is receiving the first radiotherapy session at the hospital, and she is required to undergo at least 4 others, with each lasting for one months at a cost hovering at from 20 million VND to 30 million VND. Health insurance covers 80% of the medical costs, and the rest must be paid by the patient’s family. 

The hospital’s doctors emphasised that a bone marrow transplant must be performed as soon as possible to save her life, but her family cannot afford such an expensive live-saving therapy.

Donations for the ill-fated boy can be sent to Nhi’s father Nguyen Quoc Hai  (Phone: 0905084988), or to the DA NANG Newspaper, 6 Tran Phu Street, Da Nang (Phone: 02363812341 and 0905832222) or its account No 100214851000415 at the Da Nang branch of the Viet Nam Import-Export Commercial Joint Stock Bank (Eximbank).