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"It's a difficult thing to say, but with the cost of one cancer patient's treatment, we can open up a clinic that treats hundreds of kids"

By Ellen Francis

BEIRUT, March 16 (Reuters) - When the dialysis centre in the Syrian rebel town of Douma ran out of supplies last month, three people died.

"Soon after, a convoy with 250 dialysis sessions arrived, so the rest made it," said Abou Bassel, a surgeon in the local hospital. "The same thing happened last year."

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