Netizens raise $350k for boy with leukemia to receive potentially life-saving treatment at NUH

Having a child or sibling with a life-threatening medical condition is beyond terrible, but how much worse would it be to know that there was a treatment that could potentially save their life that you simply couldn’t afford? Fortunately for one Malaysian family, the kindness and generosity of Internet strangers have helped them give their 11-year-old boy a fighting chance.

The money was raised via crowdfunding site Give.Asia. According to the page for Yong Hong’s fundraiser, which was written by his sister Hooi Ling, the 11-year-old had to be taken to NUH after he relapsed for a third time following an unsuccessful bone marrow transplant in Malaysia. “The cost for this treatment is really high for my family. We are from a normal income family and my father has to stop working as a car repair technician in Malaysia to spend most of his time looking after my brother till late night,” Hooi Ling wrote on the crowdfunding page, adding that her parents had already put up their home for sale in order to raise money for her brother’s treatment.

In an update, Hooi Ling thanked all of the donors for their kind contributions. “We have raised enough for my brother’s treatment, and Give.Asia will remit the funds over to NUH directly, and we will close the campaign today,” she wrote, adding that she would provide updates on her brother’s condition.

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