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Ugandan teenage cancer patient: How a bed saved my life

2023-10-25 07:24
Many young Ugandan patients stop free treatment as their families cannot afford other hidden costs.
Ugandan teenage cancer patient: How a bed saved my life

When 14-year-old Dorcas Cherop's family was told she needed to undergo at least a year's treatment in Uganda for bladder cancer - her future looked bleak.

The challenge lay not just in getting the medical care, which is mostly free at the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI), but the high costs involved...