London, UK, December 26, 2009 – A taxi driver delivering vital blood to cancer patients abandoned his car and battled through the blizzards on foot.
Father-of-one Abdirashid Issa was taking the blood from Southampton to Basingstoke Winchester when he was caught in Monday's chaos.
He left at 5pm and made his drop in Winchester but had to walk four miles from the M3 to North Hampshire Hospital in Basingstoke in "horrible" conditions and didn't arrive until 11pm.
Somali-born Mr Issa, who came to the UK six years ago was then stranded overnight and had to sleep on a waiting room chair.
He said: "I had to make sacrifices because they might be dying."
Source: SunMirror, Thursday, December 24, 2009

 

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