Raising money for Harvey’s Gang

Last April IBMS Deputy Chief Executive Sarah May FIBMS wrote her monthly comment on Harvey’s Gang, an initiative started by biomedical scientist Malcolm Robinson to allow children having frequent blood tests to visit the laboratory.

The initiative was started by Malcolm with help and support from his colleagues at Worthing Hospital, part of the Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. It was inspired by a boy called Harvey, who was being treated for leukaemia, and wanted to visit the laboratory to see what happened to his blood samples. During his treatments Harvey spent 291 nights in hospital. He received 1 BMT, 91 transfusions, consisting of 35 units of red cells and 56 pools of platelets.

Please donate to Harvey's Gang and help more children tour the lab

564 days from the date of his first diagnosis Harvey passed away and at his farewell Harvey’s parents displayed many pictures, including those of him with Malcolm. Harvey’s Gang was born.

Sarah wrote:

"A small act of human kindness connected a professional and his profession with a patient and his parents, and made a frightening experience a little easier to bear. Simple, but quite amazing."

You can donate and support this excellent initiative so that more ill children and young people can tour the lab.

More information can also be found at http://harveysgang.com.

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