UP and coming singer Victoria Chan Yik has set an example of courage for many by becoming Hongkong's youngest unrelated bone marrow donor last November, when she was 19 .
Most of us fear that an operation to aspirate bone marrow can be very painful. But for Chan, saving a dying patient overcame all fear of pain.
''Any fear I had disappeared when I understood that I would be under general anaesthetic,'' she told Young Post.
Chan's initiative began in October 1991 when she was a fifth-former at S.T.F.A. Leung Kau Kui College in Tsuen Mun.
She went with some classmates to a blood test drive organised by the Hongkong Marrow Match Foundation (HKMMF).
The drive aimed to find a compatible donor for little Gordon Wu, the two-year-old Canadian-Chinese suffering from blood cancer.
When Dr Raymond Liang, HKMMF's honorary secretary, called her for two more tests six months later, she immediately travelled all the way from her Tsuen Mun home to Queen Mary Hospital.