VP attends ceremony of launching national campaign for supporting cancer patients

Vice President,. Abduh Raboh Mansor Hadi, attended on Tuesday a ceremony launching a national campaign for supporting cancer patients, which is staged under sponsorship of the President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

The campaign is organized by the National Corporation of Combating Cancer under the slogan “There is Still Hope for Life”.

In the ceremony, Hadi delivered a speech in which he conveyed regards to President Saleh and to the attendants, expressing appreciation of the state and the government for their humanitarian efforts as well as the corporations help in combating cancer.

The Vice President pointed out the concerns of the state to reduce suffering of cancer patients, saying that the President Saleh has given orders to set up five centers for cancer treatment.

He also asked the government to study possibilities of allocating a percentage of revenue toward mobile services for efforts in combating the illness, wishing success for the campaign.

For his part, the minister of Public Health and Population, Abdul-Karim Rase, said that the campaign would highlight suffering of the cancer patients and praise the role of the national corporation in offering assistance for these patients. “Since its establishment in 2004, the National Center of Caring for Cancer Tumors received 13,000 cases,” the minister said, “The center offers care for 120 cases daily.”

Rase added that the center could not receive a growing number of cases because of a lack of facilities and hopes to open further centers in the future.

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