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The week in pictures
[Final Edition]
The Herald - Glasgow (UK)
Date: Jul 30, 2005
Start Page: 11
Section: Features
Text Word Count: 380
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1Sabina Cimpeanu, with her parents, Cristina and Floren, who brought her to hospital in Edinburgh from Romania. The six-month- old suffers from a rare form of hepatoblastoma, a liver condition that affects one in a million children each year. The couple, from Bucharest, contacted Jon Pritchard, a consultant at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh and one of a small number of experts on the condition, and decided to make the journey abroad, raising [pounds]8500 with the help of family and friends. The couple earn only [pounds]150 a month, but need [pounds]25,500 to cover the cost of Sabina's treatment. They are not sure they will be able to afford Sabina's surgery in September.

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