Cancer boy Nat thanks our readers for caring
BRAVE Nathaniel Nabena has thanked Sunday Mirror readers for trying to save his life.
Your generosity has helped to raise £201,000 the smiling nine-year-old needs to pay for an essential stem-cell transplant.
As he prepared for the operation, Nathaniel filmed a video at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital saying: “I want to thank the Sunday Mirror readers for donating – and the British public.”
Dad Ebi, 45, said: “We are not out of the woods. But this is one heavy stone lifted up from our hearts.”
Nathaniel, from Nigeria, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia during a medical trip to the UK in November but as he is not a British citizen he is not entitled to free care.
His only hope of surviving the aggressive cancer is the transplant
Celebrities including Simon Cowell and David Walliams have donated.
Nathaniel captured the nation’s hearts in a TV interview and donations passed the target by Tuesday, a day before the deadline to start treatment.
He was in the UK to have a prosthetic left eye fitted, after losing his original one while battling another cancer in Nigeria.
Consultants at GOSH kindly waived their private fees to help bring the total bill down from £825,000.