Dantri Newspaper representatives visit Nguyen Dinh Thuong at the Vietnam National Cancer Hospital in Hanoi and transfer VND267,010,767 to him on January 27.
Dantri Newspaper visited Nguyen Dinh Thuong, 14, at the Vietnam National Cancer Hospital in Hanoi and transferred VND267,010,767, which readers and donors sent to the newspaper's charity fund to help him cover hospital treatment.
"I want to sincerely thank Dantri and all the kind donors for supporting me," Thuong said. "I've also received over 130 million, which donors sent to the hospital and my family. Thanks to your donations, I've been able to buy good medicines, and my condition has improved."
A staff member at the Vietnam National Cancer Hospital, Nguyen Van Trung, said that Thuong's family can now afford proper treatment for him and he has more chances of beating the disease.
The donations came after Dan Tri shared a story about the boy's family facing difficulties covering his treatment.
According to Thuong's family, he started showing health problems in February 2023 and then was diagnosed with kidney cancer at a late stage.
He had to have one kidney removed and then started using chemotherapy drugs.
While Thuong's treatment is costly, his parents have no savings and struggle to make ends meet. The five-member family depends on the modest income of his construction worker father.
Meanwhile, his mother, Nguyen Thi Mui, has weak health and can only do some housework. She is now in the eighth month of pregnancy, but she has to stay in the hospital to take care of her son.
Thuong's mother Nguyen Thi Mui takes care of him at the hospital.
To cover his treatment over the past two years, Thuong's parents have had to borrow over VND200 million, and they have been unable to arrange more for him to continue his treatment.