Rare jail move to save a son
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June 18, 2012, Monday
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A FAMILY is waiting anxiously to see whether a bone marrow transplant, made possible by a rare prison transfer, has saved a boy's life.
Gao Yong, who began a 10-year sentence for burglary in 2005, was allowed to travel to donate bone marrow stem cells for his nine-year-old son, Jun Jie, who has leukemia.
Gao, who had been serving his sentence in east China's Zhejiang Province, was transferred to a prison in southwest Guizhou Province to be closer to the Xinqiao Hospital in Chongqing where Jun Ji had been taken after all possible treatments in his hometown of Zunyi in Guizhou had been exhausted.
Jun Jie was diagnosed with leukemia around the end of 2011.
Doctors at Xinqiao said Jun Jie required a bone marrow transplant, but tests showed none of his other family members were a match. His only hope was his father.
In February, after a blood sample was sent to the jail holding Gao some two hours away by air, good news came back - they matched.
Too weak to travel
"At that time, Jun Jie had become too weak to travel, so I went to judicial departments both in Zhejiang and Guizhou to persuade them to transfer his father to the Xinqiao Hospital,'' his mother Luo Jing said.
In March, Gao was transferred to the prison in Guizhou to prepare for the operation. On June 9, 10 officers escorted Gao to Chongqing.
It is very rare for a prisoner to come out of their assigned jail for as long as a week, noted the head of the escort team.
A video of Gao coming face to face with his son in the Chongqing hospital on June 9 touched many people's hearts when it spread on the Internet.
It shows Jun Jie, frail and bald after days of chemotherapy. His father, unable to enter for fear of contamination, talks to his son on the phone for 10 minutes.
"Papa, are you coming back now?'' murmured Jun Jie, who had been under the impression Gao was at work for the past seven years.
Last Thursday, escorted by two officers and handcuffed, Jun Jie's father arrived at the Xinqiao Hospital for the crucial operation.
Doctors withdrew stem cells and rushed them to Jun Jie's ward to inject them into his body.
Luo said: "I have feelings beyond words. I am excited, worried and grateful. But, I cannot relax. I have worries both for the father and the son.''
Doctor Zhang Xi said it would be two weeks before it was known whether the transplant had restored Jun Jie to health.
Gao Yong, who began a 10-year sentence for burglary in 2005, was allowed to travel to donate bone marrow stem cells for his nine-year-old son, Jun Jie, who has leukemia.
Gao, who had been serving his sentence in east China's Zhejiang Province, was transferred to a prison in southwest Guizhou Province to be closer to the Xinqiao Hospital in Chongqing where Jun Ji had been taken after all possible treatments in his hometown of Zunyi in Guizhou had been exhausted.
Jun Jie was diagnosed with leukemia around the end of 2011.
Doctors at Xinqiao said Jun Jie required a bone marrow transplant, but tests showed none of his other family members were a match. His only hope was his father.
In February, after a blood sample was sent to the jail holding Gao some two hours away by air, good news came back - they matched.
Too weak to travel
"At that time, Jun Jie had become too weak to travel, so I went to judicial departments both in Zhejiang and Guizhou to persuade them to transfer his father to the Xinqiao Hospital,'' his mother Luo Jing said.
In March, Gao was transferred to the prison in Guizhou to prepare for the operation. On June 9, 10 officers escorted Gao to Chongqing.
It is very rare for a prisoner to come out of their assigned jail for as long as a week, noted the head of the escort team.
A video of Gao coming face to face with his son in the Chongqing hospital on June 9 touched many people's hearts when it spread on the Internet.
It shows Jun Jie, frail and bald after days of chemotherapy. His father, unable to enter for fear of contamination, talks to his son on the phone for 10 minutes.
"Papa, are you coming back now?'' murmured Jun Jie, who had been under the impression Gao was at work for the past seven years.
Last Thursday, escorted by two officers and handcuffed, Jun Jie's father arrived at the Xinqiao Hospital for the crucial operation.
Doctors withdrew stem cells and rushed them to Jun Jie's ward to inject them into his body.
Luo said: "I have feelings beyond words. I am excited, worried and grateful. But, I cannot relax. I have worries both for the father and the son.''
Doctor Zhang Xi said it would be two weeks before it was known whether the transplant had restored Jun Jie to health.
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