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BENGALURU: Last week, a 22-year-old social worker, who was busy with relief work in the flood-hit Wayanad district of Kerala, doubled as a stem-cell donor. The youth was airlifted to save an unidentified 24-year-old blood cancer patient in neighbouring Tamil Nadu.On July 13, Mohammed Nafih got a call from the DATRI Blood Stem Cell Registry, where he had registered in 2014, when he was a college student. Considering the patient’s condition, the stem-cell transplant was scheduled for August 17 at a private hospital in Tamil Nadu. That night we stayed in a relief centre at UC College, Aluva, and could not move out. Nafih was safely dropped home on August 19,” said Deepu.Raghu Rajagopal, CEO, DATRI, hailed Nafih’s determination, notwithstanding the adversities surrounding him..