A Bradford hospital worker spent yesterday raising awareness for children living in India suffering from haemophilia.

Lakhbir Kaur, equality and diversity liaison officer for Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, held a stall in aid of the charity Networking of Haemophilia Camps Project, which gets medical supplies to children in rural India.

She marked World Haemophilia Day, which is held on April 17, two days early, by selling jewellery and other items.

While children in the UK with haemophilia are given regular injections of clotting agent Factor VIII, in India this medication is rare, resulting in the death of children.

The haematology 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 the life-saving clotting agent.

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

Mrs Kaur said: “Helping children with haemophilia is something that I am very passionate about and I have spent 22 years volunteering to raise awareness.”