Father wants 'donation' lessons

17 May 2012 Last updated at 21:37 ET

A father who lost his son to leukaemia is calling for secondary schools and colleges to include one lesson on how to donate stem cells, blood and organs.

Keith Sudbury wants to raise awareness by making donation part of the curriculum for students aged 16 and over.

His son Adrian received a stem cell transplant which gave him an extra year of life, but died aged 27.

Blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan is supporting the idea of 'Adrian's Law'.

Adrian spent the last two years of his life campaigning for better education about stem cell donation.

He took a petition to Downing Street and met the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown to talk about the campaign to get more young people to register as donors.

With Adrian's Law, his parents Kay and Keith want the message to reach more young people and they hope that there will be a Private Member's Bill in the Commons to highlight its importance.

We can grow the first generation of potential lifesavers.

"We urgently need more people willing to donate blood and stem cells," Keith Sudbury said.

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