The lessons on bone marrow donation "should be taught at school"

The family of an 18-year-old man who died of blood cancer wants the lessons on bone marrow donation to be included in the new curriculum in Welsh.

Emily Clark of Cwmbran, Torfaen, campaigned to raise awareness of the stem cell registry before she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

Her family wants teachers to give clbades on the subject to stimulate donors.

The Welsh government said the draft program would allow children to learn a "wide range of health issues".

Thousands of transplant recipients will attend the UK Games for transplant recipients this week, which is taking place in Wales for the first time in decades.

Emily, whose sister Holly called her "source of inspiration," died after the failure of her bone marrow transplant in 2016, and their mother, Donna, thinks that lives can be saved at the same time. 39; future.

"The national program would be an ideal way to target 16-year-olds at the age of registering – education is key," said Donna.

"You hear a lot about the lottery of postal codes of access to medication.This is a bigger problem: you have to find the person who can offer you a life without cancer and if it is not not registered in the register, you have luck. "

Donna and Holly will participate in the opening of the UK Transplant Games in Newport on Thursday.

The Anthony Nolan Trust charity stated that patient survival rates were better if donors were under 30 years old.

Wales was the first country in the United Kingdom to put in place a presumed consent system, in which persons considered to have consented to the donation of organs, unless they withdrew .

A spokesman for the Welsh government said: "We are providing schools with an online donation kit for organ donation and we have set up a speaker program to visit schools and discuss organ donation. .

"Teachers will also be able to focus on a wide range of health issues related to health and well-being – one of the six areas of learning and experience of the project. program of studies. "

Lewis Evans, of Tregaron, Ceredigion, won gold at 200 and 200 m at the British and European transplant games last year.

At his first appointment at the hospital, the 26-year-old was informed that his kidneys were about to stop functioning and that he was terminally ill with kidney failure.

"I just thought:" Give me the medicine and I'll be out "- they said" no, it's serious, we have to call someone ". , did he declare.

Lewis's sister and mother were both united, but her mother, Gay Evans, said she did not want her two children to be operated on at the same time. She donated her kidney.

"It was a second chance for my mother's life and it was very emotional," said Lewis.