WHO diagnoses around 350.000 kids with cancer
Date
7/27/2023 9:14:19 AM
(MENAFN) According to the World health Organization (WHO) head, around 350,000 kids are diagnosed with cancer every year in low- and middle-income nations.
“Many of them cannot access the treatment they need. Only 25 percent of low-income countries cover childhood cancer medicines in their health benefit packages,” Tedros Ghebreyesus informed a press conference in Geneva.
Ghebreyesus cautioned that this puts kids and their families at danger of receiving poor or tainted medicines, causing them severe pain as well as financial hardship.
"As a result, survival for children in these countries is less than 30 percent, compared with more than 90 percent for children in high-income countries," he claimed.
He recalled the WHO's Global Initiative for Childhood Cancer, that was made possible by a USD15 million donation from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in the United States stating: "The initiative aims to reach survival rates of at least 60 percent in low- and middle-income countries by 2030, focusing on six cancers that are highly curable and represent more than half of all childhood cancers."
In accordance with WHO director, St. Jude has contributed USD200 million throughout 6 years to fund the platform.
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