A Bradford hospital worker is continuing her mission to help children in India suffering from haemophilia, by spending a day raising awareness.

Lakhbir Kaur, equality and diversity liaison officer for Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, will hold a stall in aid of the charity which helps sufferers of the condition, on Monday.

She will mark World Haemophilia Day, which is annually held on April 17, a few days early, by selling jewellery and other items at the hospital in aid of Networking of Haemophilia Camps Project, which gets medical supplies to children in rural India. Mrs Kaur said: “During some of my first visits to India I saw so many people suffering with this condition, some were very weak and disfigured. This made me feel very emotional and then inspired me to do something to help.

“Helping children with haemophilia is something that I am very passionate about.”

While children in the UK with haemophilia are given regular injections of factor 8, which helps their blood clot, in India this medication is rare, resulting in the death of children.

Mrs Kaur has dedicated more than 15 years of her life to the cause. Last year she flew to Argentina to attend the International Congress of the World Federation of Haemophilia.

She also played a crucial part in setting up links between Bradford and India. The haemotology unit at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been twinned with a specialist centre in Mumbai and the link has been marked with a donation of life-saving clotting agent factor 8.

The agent allows operations on patients with blood disorders such as haemophilia, who would otherwise bleed to death during surgery.

Each camp in India costs £5,000 to run and is attended by 70-100 boys, their siblings, parents, doctors, nurses and volunteers.

All food, transport, medical treatment is provided by the charity.

The stall will be set up near the main reception, opposite the physiotherapy department at the hospital and will run from 9.30am.