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Erniz Nazarkoolov, waves to a digital camera. While in a visitation playroom with personnel from Manas Air Base Outreach Society (MABOS), patients with a weakened immune system don surgical masks at the Kyrgyz Republic Cancer Center. Due to chemotherapy many children wear knit caps to keep their baldhead warm in a facility that has little if any funding to keep its heaters running. This is the only national cancer center in the Kyrgyz Republic, and is one of the Manas Air Base Outreach Society focus group locations. The ward houses 40 patients in 9 rooms, but because of the distance and cost to travel there, a parent of each child stay in residence with them for the one-year treatment of various kinds of cancer, making 80 people in residence. Despite the crowded living conditions, the cancer center reports a 70% recovery rate of early-diagnosed cancer. Although government funded, the money does not pay for all the costs. Damiria Omoorzakovna, principal and lead doctor, spends most of her time raising funds for the center. Recent donations include from an Italian football captain, for $200,000 in bone marrow operations. Another is $3,000,000 dollars from the Italian government for a new facility, but more is needed to cover the total cost.
| Date Taken: | 03.29.2006 |
| Date Posted: | 03.29.2006 14:11 |
| Photo ID: | 17599 |
| Resolution: | 4288x2848 |
| Size: | 4.66 MB |
| Location: | BISHKEK, KG |
| Web Views: | 73 |
| Downloads: | 12 |
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