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Cancer sufferer needs your support

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Abu Dhabi four-year-old Yasmin Mahsoub will die of cancer unless her family raise enough money to pay for treatment abroad.

Yasmin suffers from a rare aggressive form of cancer that is untreatable in this country, and medical professionals in the UAE have recommended that she travel to Europe or the United States for treatment as a matter of urgency.

Yasmin’s parents, Sherif Mahsoub from Egypt and Victoria Zimina from Russia, have managed to find a hospital in Switzerland experienced in dealing with the type of cancer Yasmin suffers from, but the cost of the treatment at the University Children’s Hospital, Zurich is well over a million dirhams.

Now Yasmin’s parents are appealing to the Abu Dhabi public to donate funds to pay the AED 1.2 million bill, excluding flights and other expenses, so that their daughter can get the care she so desperately needs.

“I want to take my baby for treatment but I don’t have that kind of money,” said Zimina. “We need to move fast because the tumour is growing inside of her.”

“The type of cancer our daughter has is malignant and aggressive,” Mahsoub added. “I’m a civil engineer but I lost my job because I took time off to be with her, so we really need help to pay the medical expenses.”

Yasmin first became ill in May of this year and was later diagnosed with Adrenocortical carcinoma; a rare cancer that forms in the outer layer of tissue of the adrenal gland on the kidney and only affects one or two people out of a million annually.

For more information on how you can help call: 050 692 6172 or email: [email protected]

One Response to Cancer sufferer needs your support

  1. Ahmad says:

    I would like to donate. What methods are available for donations?
    Thanks

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