“Every child oncology centre in Poland has patients from Ukraine,” oncologist Prof. Anna Raciborska told the state PAP news agency.
She added that the evacuation of young cancer sufferers from Ukraine was being overseen by a US-based charity, St. Jude Global.
“Patients are first transferred to the Unicorn centre near the southeastern Polish city of Kielce” and are then sent to other available clinics, Raciborska said on Wednesday.
“Child sufferers are moved to centres not just in Poland and Europe, but around the world, including the United States, Canada, South America and Israel,” she added.
200 child cancer patients from Ukraine receiving treatment in Poland
Raciborska, who leads the oncology clinic at the Institute of Mother and Child (IMC) in Warsaw, said that some 200 Ukrainian child cancer patients were currently being treated in Poland.
On Wednesday, a further 17 young cancer sufferers from war-torn Ukraine were scheduled to arrive at the Unicorn centre together with their families, according to officials.
The evacuation of Ukrainian child cancer patients is jointly organised by St. June Global, Poland’s Herosi Foundation and the Polish Oncology and Paediatric Haematology Society (PTOHD), the PAP news agency reported.
Thursday is day 57 of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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Source: PAP, stjude.org, ptohd.pl