/ 27 October 1999

SEA MISSION TO SAVE CHILD’S LIFE

A CONTAINER ship is on Wednesday ferrying a six-year-old girl with a life-threatening disease from the tiny Atlantic island of St. Helena to Cape Town for emergency treatment. A clinic is on standby to treat little Danni Clifford, who has been provisionally diagnosed with the potentially fatal blood disorder aplasticanaemia, the Cape Argus newspaper reported. A radio plea was broadcast for ships en route to South Africa to pick up the little girl as St. Helena has no airport and the ship that serviced the island, the passenger/cargo ship RMS St. Helena, was thousands of miles away. A Safmarine container ship, the “Nozmi”, responded and backtracked 300 miles to pick up the girl, her young brother and sister and their grandmother.