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Iraq City Gets New Hospital To Tackle Soaring Child Cancer
"Leukaemia among children under 15 has increased by about four times," said Dr. Janan Hasan of the Basra Children's Hospital.
"Most are high-risk cases, which means that they do not have a high survival rate," she told AFP on the sidelines of the opening ceremony, where hapless parents with sick children in tow, many with the tell-tale baldness of chemotherapy, clustered around the paediatrician.
The facility, which was built with multinational assistance and funds, officially opened on Thursday but has been partially operational for several months, Hasan said.
"This hospital is a very important achievement, and I thank everyone who helped build it," she said.
"This is a very good effort, but we still do not have advanced equipment, labs and many medicines. We hope to acquire them over time."
Three-year-old Muntadhar, his green eyes staring dolefully from his mother's arms, is one of the patients the hospital cannot help because it does not have the equipment.
Muntadhar, an intravenous insertion needle bandaged to his foot, was diagnosed with a cancerous tumour a year ago, his mother Inas Ahmed said.
"We took him to Iran a few months ago and they cut him open to try to help him," she said, lifting his orange Mickey Mouse T-shirt to reveal a deep scar across his belly.
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