An Irish doctor in Tanzania racked up a bill of $50,000 paying for children’s chemotherapy before setting up a charity that helps hundreds of sick kids every day.
Dr Trish Scanlan, who has lived in the East African country for more than 15 years, has significantly improved survival rates for kids with cancer while also battling the disease herself but declared “more work needs to be done”.
The paediatric oncologist, 49, said while the number of children surviving has gone up considerably it’s still not good enough.
