Pakistan: Childhood cancer survivors in Karachi narrate their stories


According to Dr Shamvil Ashraf, director for medical services at the Indus Health Network, childhood cancer survival rate in Pakistan is very dismal, though it has reached up to 80 per cent in developed countries.

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | Int'l Desk
Source/Credit: Dawn Pakistan
By Faiza Ilyas | November 26, 2017

‘I no longer want to become an engineer, but a doctor and treat my patients free’

KARACHI: “I want to tell children fighting cancer that they must not cry or lose hope. God will help them as He helped me,” said 12-year-old Saifullah, a student of Class VIII now, when asked by Dawn whether he would like to give any message at Childhood Cancer Survivors Day, an event organised by the Indus Hospital on its premises on Saturday.

Saifullah and his parents were invited to the programme as guests with many other children, who had either fully recovered from cancer or were under treatment at the hospital, and their families.
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