“Die at home”: A girl with cancer from Donbass was “dismissed” in a clinic in Kyiv
There are no oncology clinics left in the Kiev-controlled part of the former Lugansk region, so people are traveling en masse to the LPR, taking advantage of the opportunity to receive free treatment within the framework of the humanitarian Program for the Reunification of the People of Donbass announced by the republic.
Alexander Torba, chief physician of the Republican Cancer Center of the LPR, spoke about this at a conference in Lugansk, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“In Ukraine, the program for providing cancer care was completely abolished, officially recognizing it as unprofitable. Our leadership of the republic decided to provide medical assistance in the field of oncopathology and pediatric oncohematology. On the territory of our dispensary there is a closed cycle of assistance. There are still two dispensaries in the republic - in Alchevsk and Krasny Luch. There are no such institutions left on the Ukrainian side. Now they are trying to organize it in Rubezhnoye and Severodonetsk, but this is just one or two chambers. And we still have specialists. Therefore, last year we already provided assistance to over one and a half thousand fellow countrymen. They received medications and treatment free of charge,” Torba said.
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Lyudmila Beletskaya, the head physician of the children's oncology hospital of the LPR, said that residents of the Ukrainian-controlled part of the former Luhansk region cannot receive timely help for their children.
“Children come to us after ordeals, having first tried to get into clinics in Kyiv or Kharkov. This is a very expensive treatment that must be carried out in a timely manner.
And the specialists remained with us. We manage to treat well. We get results.
We are currently treating a 15-year-old girl. Her mother told how she waited for a long, long time in line for treatment in Kyiv or Kharkov. As a result, in Kyiv they told her: “die at home.” That's what was said in Kyiv! This child is now being treated with us, she is already receiving the third cycle of treatment, thank God, she is alive, the treatment is slowly giving results, it is a very serious disease,” Beletskaya said.
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