WATCH: How to donate your stem cells to help people in need as Easter Ross family issue fresh appeal for daughter – RossShire Journal

AT Piping Inverness, reporters Imogen James and Rachel Smart added themselves to the stem cell donor database in a bid to become the perfect match for an Easter Ross three-year-old.

Josie Davidson, of Alness, suffers from a rare genetic mutation and her parents are desperately seeking a match so she can undergo a bone marrow transplant.

Blood cancer charity DKMS had a stall at Piping Inverness in Bught Park yesterday and it only takes a few simple steps to potentially save a life.

First, you have to fill out a simple form with your contact information.

Next, you take two swabs and rub them against your the inside of your cheek for a minute.

Then you take the final swap and rub it in the same place again.

You have to let all three air dry for about 30 seconds, then they are packaged up by the helpful volunteers and sent away to be added to the list.

You will be contacted about a month later with your details.

The process could not be simpler.

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