Of the visible minorities registered with Canadian Blood Services, only seven per cent are of South Asian or Chinese descent. That's what inspired their campaign to recruit more stem cell donors from ethnically diverse, especially Asian, backgrounds. "We see that it's really just because people don't know about it," Shelly Nguyen said of the small pool of potential donors. Less than 30 per cent of all registered stem cell donors are of ethnically diverse backgrounds. He'd like to one day become a stem cell donor himself, if he's able to.

Source: CBC News May 05, 2018 20:48 UTC