Ukrainians travel to LPR to get free cancer treatment
Half of cancer patients coming to the LPR from Kyiv-controlled territory do not have the means to be treated in Ukraine.
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Since the beginning of the Humanitarian Program for the Reunification of the People of Donbass, more than a thousand cancer patients living in Ukraine, mainly in the Lugansk region, have turned to the Lugansk Republican Clinical Oncology Center (LRKOD).
At the same time, half of the patients who came from Ukraine are diagnosed with advanced stages of cancer, said Andrey Kazmin, head of the chemotherapy department.
“A significant part of our Ukrainian patients progress their diseases, one might say, 50:50, if not more. Many say that there is no money even for the examination,” said Kazmin.
Thus, a resident of Severodonetsk lived with a terrible diagnosis for four years.
“I did not undergo treatment in Ukraine because it is expensive: up to 60 thousand hryvnia to undergo chemotherapy. I have already completed one course of chemotherapy here in the LPR, and now I have come for another. I paid only for one injection, which was not available at that moment, and that’s all. But everything else was given for free,” said the man.
Ukrainians are traveling to the LPR for free cancer treatment.