Survival rate shock for kids cancers

Mon, Feb 25th 2019, 08:00 AM

 

THE Bahamas faces a massive uphill battle to improve survival rates for children with cancer and other auto-immune diseases.
Complicating the problem is the fact that 87 percent of the Princess Margaret Hospital’s children’s wards have been closed since Hurricane Matthew in 2016 — forcing patients to wait in the accident and emergency department for days for a bed in its only operational paediatric ward...

THE Bahamas faces a massive uphill battle to improve survival rates for children with cancer and other auto-immune diseases.

Complicating the problem is the fact that 87 percent of the Princess Margaret Hospital’s children’s wards have been closed since Hurricane Matthew in 2016 — forcing patients to wait in the accident and emergency department for days for a bed in its only operational paediatric ward...

 

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