In October 2023, Sergeant Daniel Hamo, who fell yesterday within the battle within the northern Gaza Strip, was capable of save a life not solely on the battlefield, by donating bone marrow, due to which a lady who wanted a transplant was saved.
Sergeant Daniel Hamo, photograph: IDF spokesman
A couple of days earlier than the outbreak of the struggle, his father-in-law acquired a name from the “Ezer Metzion” affiliation and was advised that he was discovered appropriate for donating bone marrow to a lady in her 60s, who urgently wanted a life-saving transplant. Daniel, who joined the bone marrow pool when he was drafted into the IDF, was discovered to be the one donor in a 100% match.
His father-in-law received concerned within the mission of saving lives and started an expedited process of checks for the transplant. On October 7, the preparation process for the donation was supposed to start. When the struggle broke out, on the morning of Simchat Torah, Daniel fought on the battlefield in Sderot, Bari and the occasion complicated in Ra’im. Daniel continued to struggle, and the transplant that was speculated to happen a number of days later was postponed.
Kibbutz Ra’im, after October 7, photograph: Efrat Eshel
Because of the urgency and worry for the affected person’s life, the affiliation made an effort in opposition to the clock to work for the soldier’s launch to make the donation. The affiliation managed to contact his commanders within the subject, who understood the big significance of saving lives and launched his father-in-law for the sake of the donation. In the long run, on October 26, he arrived at Ezer Mezion’s Ornit house and donated bone marrow for the lady, whom he didn’t know in any respect.
Daniel mentioned then: “I’ve a proper. At the same time as a fighter you ask what number of lives I can save as a person, and right here there may be the mix of each being a fighter and saving lives, which is a extremely good feeling. One thing loopy.”
Sergeant Daniel Hamo on the day of donation,
The Director of the Nationwide Bone Marrow Reserve Dr. Bracha Zisser mentioned: “Even when Daniel fought on the battlefield, he didn’t quit the fitting to avoid wasting a life that got here to him. Amidst the load of fight, after we approached his commanders, they instantly understood the good significance of the act of donation – and the method was set in movement. The representatives of the affiliation got here to the sector to Daniel to elucidate to him concerning the process and accompany him within the medical facet. Later, he got here to us on the assortment heart in Petah Tikva, we met a smiling man, filled with goodness, who was completely satisfied to do good to others. Daniel fell in battle, however his life will live on with the lady he saved.”
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