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Rainbow Children’s Village
by lsdesigns
https://www.rainbowchildrensvillage.com/ info@rainbowchildrensvillage.com +263 778 852 641 / +263 772 700 020 East Road, Belgravia, Harare https://www.facebook.com/rcvzw
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Child Health
The Rainbow Children’s Village seeks to address these challenges by providing a restorative home where the patients can recover, be monitored and recuperate from treatment.
Childhood cancer patient numbers are on the rise with an extremely high mortality rate of approximately 75%. Registered number of childhood cancer in the latest 2015 Zimbabwe National Cancer Registry was 250. However these figures are not a true reflection of the reality on the ground. Correct and up to date data is ‘work in progress’. These staggering figures are due to a myriad of reasons including late detection and diagnosis, an insufficient government healthcare delivery system with ill-equipped health centers, insufficient trained staff in oncology, a limited number of operational cancer treatment centers (currently only one based in Harare that dispenses chemotherapy), inconsistent supply of drugs and a harsh economic environment.
Children from disadvantaged backgrounds in general and in particular those living in the outer areas of Harare and rural areas of Zimbabwe are particularly at risk of becoming a mortality statistic.
