Childhood cancer patients in Lebanon must battle disease while under fire
Associated PressBEIRUT — Carol Zeghayer gripped her IV as she hurried down the brightly lit hallway of Beirut’s children’s cancer center. The Children’s Cancer Center of Lebanon quickly identified each patient’s location to ensure treatments remained uninterrupted, sometimes facilitating them at hospitals closer to the families’ new locations, said Zeina El Chami, the center’s fundraising and events executive. “I know physicians, who work here, who haven’t seen their parents in like six weeks because the roads are very dangerous.” Since 2019, Lebanon has been battered by cascading crises — economic collapse, the devastating Beirut port explosion in 2020, and now a relentless war — leaving institutions like the cancer center struggling to secure the funds needed to save lives. “We escaped one war to another,” Asinat’s mother, Fatima, added. “I don’t feel safe … nowhere is safe … not Lebanon, not Syria, not Palestine,” Asinat said.
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