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You could be the match: Preschool boy fights for his life as family seeks bone-marrow donor

From iDNES · () Czech

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  • Jindra Ondrejka, a preschool child from Ostrov in the Karlovy Vary region, is being treated for leukemia at Motol Hospital.
  • After intensive chemotherapy, doctors plan to proceed with a bone-marrow transplant.
  • His family and medical team are searching for a suitable donor.

Jindra Ondrejka should be preparing to celebrate his fifth birthday. Instead, the boy from Ostrov in the Karlovy Vary region is fighting leukemia in Prague's Motol Hospital.

He has undergone intensive chemotherapy, and doctors are now planning a bone-marrow transplant. His family is working with medical staff to find a suitable donor.

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