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EDITION 8

August: Women’s Month –

Saluting our Women

NO to Formula,

YES to Breastfeeding!

KZN HEALTH MEC - Dr Dhlomo KZN HEALTH HOD - Dr Zungu

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Ezempilo | Health Matters - Edition 82“The fastest way to change society is to mobilize the women of the world.”

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In June this year, 16 year old Akhona

Xaba became the first person in KZN to receive a stem cell transplant

at Durban’s Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital. Akhona suffers from acute

myeloid leukaemia, which is cancer of the body’s white blood cells. These cells are

produced by a part of the body called bone marrow which fights infection. Akhona needed someone (a donor) who could

provide a bone marrow so that her body could produce normal blood cells.

Without that, she would die.

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