Chelsea star DIDIER DROGBA: Now the war in Ivory Coast is over, I can build my country a £3m hospital
Posted Thursday, February 16, 2012 by The Sun
Poverty-stricken ... life expectancy in Ivory Coast is just 54
In addition, a cousin, Stephan, and a young boy, Nobel, who he befriended while visiting stadium disaster victims, died of leukaemia.
Drogba said: "When I first saw Nobel in the same hospital as those who were injured from the game, I saw the conditions were not the best if you wanted to save a kid from leukaemia.
"We sent him to Europe and he fought for more than a year but didn't make it.
"My cousin had leukaemia as well and on the same day I managed to get a visa for him to go to France to get treatment, he died.
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