Blood for the living - Excelsior PTA drive inspired by tragedy
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When 13-year-old Kemelia Paul was fighting for her life in hospital after being stabbed while trying to intervene in a domestic dispute at her home in Bayshore Park, St Andrew, her mother, Josephine Mitchell, was confronted with a desperate reality: finding enough blood to keep her daughter alive. As doctors battled to save the Excelsior High School student, Mitchell and other relatives made repeated trips to source surgical supplies while simultaneously appealing to members of the public to don
