Eva Winston-Hart needs a transplant to stay alive
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The parents of a three-year-old girl with a rare form of leukaemia have organised a donor clinic in the hope of finding a bone-marrow match.
Eva Winston-Hart from Market Harborough was taken ill six weeks ago.
There are currently only eight such cases in the UK and chemotherapy alone cannot save her.
Her mother, Amy, said they had organised a donor recruitment clinic at the Assembly Rooms, Market Harborough, on 30 January.
"She needs the transplant to stay alive," said Mrs Winston-Hart.
"As a parent, on the way to hospital you drive past a bus stop and you see three or four young, fit, healthy males who would make really good donors and you think 'it could be him'.
"Then you've gone and that's your chance missed. You feel pretty desperate," said Mrs Winston-Hart.
There are 370,000 people registered as bone-marrow donors.
But the Anthony Nolan Trust is calling for more because the chance of a match for Eva is only one in 100,000.
Trust spokeswoman Azra Iqbal said: "It's like winning the lottery as to whether a patient finds a match or not.
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