Arman’s life depends on your mercy
In November 2009, the world turned upside down for 10-year-old Arman Kostandyan and his parents after Arman was diagnosed with aplastic anemia.
Twelve patients currently undergo treatment in the Blood Transfusion Center named after Professor R. Yolyan, another seven were discharge after a full recovery. Immunosuppressive Therapy is frontline treatment for individuals with congenital or acquired aplastic anemia.
If the organism is sensitive to drugs, the treatment gives the desirable effect, otherwise the patient needs urgent bone marrow transplantation.
Arman Kostandyan has been in the centre for three months. He mainly spends his time drawing. The hospital walls are decorated with his pictures. We noticed a Bible beside his brushes and paints. Arman says he began reading the Bible in hospital.
"I want to read it up though the book is difficult for me," says Arman.
The ten-year-old boy believes that people are kind-hearted and careful. He wishes to return to the family and play his brother.
Doctors say if Arman's condition does not improve after six months treatment, bone marrow transplantation will be required," Arman's father Aram Kostandyan told A1+.
The parents' attempts to find a donor in the Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry were in vain as they could not to find a match among the 15 000 donors. The family has turned to famous foreign clinics but they asked huge sums of money for the operation. Finally, in full despair, they opened a bank account relying on the financial support of the public.
"Many people contact us and hold a helping hand which means people have lost their mercy," said the parents.
Munich's Elite Medical Clinic has agreed to make the transplantation of the bone marrow after the family pays €260 000. Arman's parents have not responded yet.
So far, the bank account has raised $3000-4000.
