A single father in Malaysia is hoping to raise RM2 million (S$631,900) to seek urgent treatment for his 15-year-old daughter’s leukaemia in Singapore.
Mirabelle Kua Han Fay, a teenager from Melaka, was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, a rare type of blood cancer.
According to a donation drive posted on the One Hope Charity and Welfare’s website on Tuesday (Dec 16), she has to travel to Singapore this week to begin a form of immunotherapy treatment known as Car-T cell therapy.
The decision was made after “all treatment options in Malaysia [were] exhausted”.
“Doctors have advised that she better begin Car-T treatment in Singapore within this week. This is her only chance to survive, and the earlier the treatment begins, the higher her chances of success,” according to the page.
It added that Kua’s chances of recovery is more than 80 per cent if the treatment is successful.
According to the charity, her illness was discovered after she developed a fever on Sept 9 this year.
