Some thirty children with cancer from Ukraine arrive in Madrid this Friday on an army plane to continue their treatment in Spain

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On Tuesday, help was requested and in just three days

and

device has been put into operation to make possible the arrival in Spain this Friday, from Krakow (Poland), of

, to be treated and welcomed by various hospitals where they can continue their treatments.

The demand came from the Spanish Society of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (SEHOP), which had in turn received a distress call from its international counterparts (SIOP), concerned about the situation faced by patients after the invasion of Russia .

After 14 days of war, some Ukrainian cities have been left without electricity and running water, and Russian army bombs have even fallen on hospitals, causing deaths and rendering facilities and equipment useless, forcing health personnel and patients to seek refuge in the basements of buildings.

In the midst of the horror of war there are people especially vulnerable to precariousness.

For a child with cancer, interrupting his treatment even for a few days means

, because the speed of reproduction of cancer cells is much higher at an early age.

Therefore,

was needed to carry out the transfer and coordinate the logistics to relocate the evacuees in the shortest possible time.

Some associations of relatives of children with cancer, such as the

the

(Asiom) or the

, immediately got down to work to speed up the entire process.

And the response from the minister, Margarita Robles, putting the Army at the service of the operation, came to them right away.

"We have the plane," she repeated to herself over and over again in the messages that the promoters of the initiative enthusiastically sent each other throughout Tuesday.

The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, confirmed this Thursday that the first group of kids with their families

, on an army plane that will land in Madrid and distribute patients to four hospitals in the capital.

But it is expected that, over the next few days,

may arrive , who would be treated respectively in Barcelona, ​​Valencia and Alicante and Seville.

In total, Spain could receive around

Other countries such as the United Kingdom and Israel have also responded to the call of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology.

Sánchez made the announcement during a visit to one of the three large reception and reception centers for Ukrainian refugees, the one located in Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid).

"We want to give special attention to children with illnesses so that they can be treated properly and with all the guarantees in the health network of our country," explained the president.

In principle, during the first four days, these minors and their families will stay in hotels in the capital, but permanent accommodation is already being sought for them in the cities where they will receive medical care.

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