Many children around the world suffer serious diseases such as cancer. For children living amongst war, or in the midst of political heat, receiving crucial medical attention is a difficult struggle. Hospitals in countries like Iraq fail to deliver the most basic medical needs, often resulting in preventable deaths of young lives. Many of these children do not have the resources to get to a doctor before their disease gets to incurable states. Desperate civilians arrive in cancer centers only to be turned away because of financial difficulty war violence.
Safa is a particular child diagnosed with Wilm's Tumor in Iraq. This is a cancer of the kidneys, and is the most prevalent kidney tumor in children. Surival rates are high for this tumor, unless, it goes untreated. Safa's tumor kept growing, despite a year of chemotherapy in Baghdad. Doctors told him and his family that there was nothing more they could do.
The Ray Tye Medical Aid Foundation, located in the United States, discovered Safa and his terrible condition. The foundation is devoted to getting people with life threatening diseases to hospitals, that have insufficient funds for medical attention.
People around the world are in dire need of medical attention, and too many of them lack the resources needed to obtain it. This medical crisis is on such a large scale that the Ray Tye foundation launched the Iraqi Goodwill Fund. This is a great effort, however, the number of people needing help is far greater than these funds can support.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/08/13/iraq.baby/index.html
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