Battling Cancer Together
Cancer in recent years has overtaken HIV/AIDS and malaria as
a growing national concern in
Lack of public awareness and deep poverty is partly to blame. Another issue has to do
with poorly equipped medical facility. There is only one cancer center staffed
by four overworked specialists using one cobalt machine to serve a population of
83 million. The center currently attends to needs of 6,000 patients with 2,000
more newly diagnosed each year. Wait time to receive even a modicum of help is
six months during which 14 per cent of patients die before seeing a physician. Two
cancer survivor-mothers and their friends are now trying to change all that.
And they are up against a host of challenges. Do you know you could be part of
their team? Do you realize your efforts could mean saving mothers so children
are not orphaned? And widowers left to raise children all alone? Please read full details in BCE. For those who read Amharic click Ethiopianchurch.org. God bless. Ed.
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