Buy an Ambulance 4 Children with Cancer (Zimbabwe)

Children with cancer in Zimbabwe are still presenting late for treatment. Due to the stigma of cancer as a death sentence parents are still "hidding" their children at home until its too late. They are too shy to travl on public transport,less they obceen comme ts from other passengers, on the stae on their children.Kidzcan will however be running a campaign on Early detection of cancers soon to encourage parents to have their children screened for cance.

An ambulance would alleviate this problem of stigma and bring the children early for treatment.

Kidzcan is therefore seeking assistance with an Ambulance in assisting the treatment of cancer for children in Zimbabwe. It should be noted, therefore that the cancer patients and their families travel long distances for services mostly in inappropriate means of transportation such as public transport with no provisions for the very ill patients. This causes delay in the referrals with patients arriving in advance stages of illnesses. Hence the need for an Ambulance is paramount. Often children need to be moved from one hospital to another  for further specialised treatment, but no transport is provided for them. Parents then find themselves with a burden of having to find private transport to ferry their children as there is a stigma on children with cancer, especially if it is at an advanced stage. Some parents go to the extent of abandoning treatment due to lack of dedicated transport for cancer patients. Hence an ambulance would be of great service to children suffering from cancer. Although Kidzcans provides patients with transport fares, not all come for treatment. This falls far too short from easing transportation burden on the patients and the conditions associated with their long journey to the only centre that provides hope to the cancer patients and their families 

Help remove the stigma of cancer as a death sentence. For children with cancer if detected early can survive.