They have cancer in Sudan

Ahbab al-Saher, a 12-year-old Sudanese. Two years ago, on the first day of school, she was in very poor health. His family went to see a doctor in the village located east of the island (central Sudan). He asked for antibiotics, believing that she was infected with regular infections, but to no avail. She was taken to al-Salam Hospital in Khartoum and her doctor asked her to undergo tests, which shocked the family and a person with leukemia. However, doctors at the Center for Cancer Treatment rebadured her parents about the possibility of treatment and, later, in a psychological counseling unit that then allowed them to properly care for the girl during her treatment trip.

I loved the secret in the center for six months. During this period, her hair fell and she abstained from eating, suffered back pain, severe anemia and headache. "After the seventh month, the girl started to respond to treatment, until her full recovery, but she continues to take medicine and doctors fall off from time to time," said Ybadir Yabir Ybader Kurdi, from New Arab,.

He adds that the state provides free treatment for cancer. Sometimes drugs are interrupted at the center's pharmacy and families have to buy them abroad at high prices. But this rarely happens. Although the result was positive in the life of the Ahbab daughter and her family, it was not the same for Safia Abdel Wahab's family. Her daughter, Hala Abdul Jalil, said, "We did not find out that the mother had cancer only after the disease reached stage 4. The tumor was at a very good place in her brain," she said. she said. Tell them that they are suffering from epilepsy and treat them on this basis without any results. Then they went to the doctor, the last person to have brain cancer. He was frank when he told the family that the treatment would not work and that any surgery would have a negative effect.

The family did not leave and went to Egypt, where she underwent surgery to remove part of the tumor. She kept the other part because it was attached to very fine hairs in the brain. She underwent radiation therapy. Two months later, the family returned from Cairo, but the mother died soon after.

Hala adds that the crisis in Sudan is a bad diagnosis, or at least for them. If the disease had been detected early, it would have been easier to heal. The second problem is that radiation therapy is only available in one hospital in Khartoum. Thus, the patients exert a strong pressure, as well as failures of the devices of treatment and detection often. She pointed out that the cost of treatment outside Sudan was very high and that her family had paid about 200,000 pounds (about $ 10,000).

Safia and the girl have loved both cases of cancer in the country, even if the figures are very worrying. According to a statistic announced by the Sudanese Ministry of Health regarding the registration of about 12,000 cases of cancer a year, about 18,000 cases have not yet been diagnosed.

Dr. Abu Idris, Director of the Ministry of Health's Oncology Research Center, complains about the low budget allocated to cancer treatment, due to the continuing failure of chemotherapy equipment due to lack of money and budgets for maintenance. And refers to the existence of only six devices to treat cancer in all countries.

For his part, Khater Youssef, director of the Khartoum Center for Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine, told the "New Arab" that the incidence of cancer reaching the hospital is well below the real numbers, because population of parties and remote areas. It shows that the average number of new infections arriving at the center is estimated at 1,000 per month, 70% of which are behind schedule. He points out that for each case detected, there are 3 unexplored cases.

Breast cancer accounts for 34% of injuries, 80% of which are outside Khartoum. He believes that the main problem in the country is the weakness of early detection and awareness programs.

According to Yusuf, there is no immediate reason to increase the number of cancer patients in Sudan. But he explains that 85% of lung cancer cases are related to smoking. Inflammation leads to cervical cancer in women. He says that the state supports cancer patients and that the government is making a clear effort to stop the spread of cancer. It should be noted that there is another hospital in the city of Madani (central Sudan) and several centers in different states of Sudan, including the cities of Port Sudan, Qadarif, White, Dengla, Merwi and Shendi. . He also stressed the importance of creating more centers.

More recently, people with cancer began writing about their experiences in the media and social media, and became community leaders who fought this malignant disease, including Walid al-Burt, an activist who has been using Facebook for years. years to display his scenes. Illness and treatment stages, and found great solidarity.

The advertiser also spoke to Lamia Mutawakel about her bad cancer as part of the "Sudanese House" program she is preparing and presenting on Omdurman FM 100.

Mohammed Mohammed Khair, a journalist and poet, has been writing for years about his illness and how to defeat him. "The new Arab" states that the moment he is reported is the most painful of all stages, indicating that he was operated on. After having cancer, he became familiar with the disease and found that reading had so increased his doubts that he was no longer answering calls for lunch and dinner and was eating only cooked meals by his wife.