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Victims of the conflict "These children are already fighting their own battle"
Twenty-five Ukrainian children with cancer have arrived this Friday accompanied by their relatives at the
Torrejón
air base in
Madrid
to continue their treatment in Spain, interrupted after Russia's attack on Ukraine.
The
Ministry of Defense
has informed around 6:00 pm of the landing in Torrejón of
the A400 plane
of
the Air Force
that was transporting the children and their relatives from
Poland
, and in which another 22 displaced by the war were also traveling.
These children will be transferred to the refugee reception and reception center in
Pozuelo de Alarcón
(Madrid), the first of the three authorized by the Government to open its doors to channel emergency reception and the processing of the papers of the displaced, by which this Friday a hundred Ukrainians have already passed.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, has spoken this Friday about thirty sick children and 45 relatives, but Defense puts these children at 25 and does not detail the number of people who accompany them.
For its part, sources from the
Ministry of Health
of the Community of Madrid specify that there are 23 Ukrainian children who will receive cancer treatment in four public hospitals in the region.
Specifically, seven will go to
Hospital La Paz
, six to
Niño Jesús
, five to
Gregorio Marañón
and five to
Twelve October
.
The Government calculates that in the center of Pozuelo, which has rooms for 400 people and was a Social Security training center, the arrival of about 450 Ukrainians is processed daily.
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