Ready to Evacuate 14 Kids with Cancer from Gaza Says Tajani
Rome: The Food for Gaza initiative Italy has spearheaded to get food aid to Palestinian civilians is opening a new phase of cooperation in healthcare and will be taking 14 paediatric cancer patients from the Gaza Strip to medical facilities in the Italian regions of Piedmont, Lazio and Lombardy, Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said Thursday. Tajani spoke to reporters on a flight taking him and University and Research Minister Anna Maria Bernini to Israel.
According to Ansa News Agency, in future, other Italian medical facilities will be involved in the project “because the objective is to further increase the number of these children”, Tajani said. The children, who will be evacuated with family members for a total of 42 people, will be taken from the Gaza Strip to Cairo on February 15-16 and subsequently to Italy.
Four children will be treated in Milan, two in Monza and eight in Turin and Milan, respectively at the Regina Margherita and Umberto I hospitals.