This is James Harrison, the Australian known as “The Man with the Golden Arm”. He started donating blood at the age of 18, not knowing that, over six decades, he would save the lives of more than two million babies.
It all started when he had to undergo lung surgery at the age of 14, in which blood transfusions prevented him from dying. When he woke up in the ICU, he felt he had to return the favor, and he did so until the end of his life.
Encouraged by his father, the gesture of donating blood became a fortnightly appointment with the Australian Red Cross. All until 2018, when he retired at the age of 81.
James' plasma had a strange antibody, which was used to create a drug that was administered to mothers, whose blood was at risk of attacking their children during pregnancy.
James Harrison, after 64 years of giving a small part of himself for the lives of others, has died at the age of 88. His legacy remains with these babies you see; some of the millions he saved without asking for anything in return.
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