Newborn with leukemia gets passport for US treatment
Credit to Author: cbibe| Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2019 23:00:49 +0000
MANILA, Philippines — A newborn, who has been diagnosed with leukemia, is now one step closer to acquiring much-needed treatment in the United States.
In a Facebook post by Department Foreign Affairs (DFA) Assistant Secretary Elmer Cato on Sunday, he said the agency was able to give Maverick Sevrin “Sevy” Co his passport just a few days after it was processed.
“Now, all he needs is his visa from the United States Embassy so he could be flown to the St. Jude’s Cancer Research Center in Memphis for treatment,” Cato wrote.
Baby Sevy has been diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL).
“In layman’s terms, (ALL is) a blood cancer that doesn’t let him form enough of platelets (healing/clotting) and produce way too much White blood cells (fight infection),” Sevy’s parents shared in an earlier Facebook post.
Baby Sevy has been receiving blood transfusions since December 29, 2018, only a day after he was born.
It was on January 7 when the parents of Baby Sevy appealed for help, through the Facebook page “SAVING Sevy,” for the immediate processing of his passport and US visa so that he can be flown to the United States for treatment at the St. Jude Research Center in Memphis, Tennessee.
“It is time critical as the facility wants no chemo treatment administered to him so it will be their full protocol working on [Sevy],” they added.
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On the same day, the DFA sent a consular team to the Manila Doctors Hospital, where the newborn is currently being taken care of, after the appeal of Sevy’s parents reached the agency.
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“The team arrived shortly after 6 p.m. and began processing Baby Sevy’s passport application right inside the neonatal intensive care unit where he was been confined since his birth 10 days ago,” Cato shared in a Facebook post on January 7.
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For the time being, Baby Sevy needs Type O positive blood every eight hours. Donors may contact his parents through the number 09988642500. /cbb
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