REFERRAL hospitals will soon have cancer centres to provide patients with timely diagnostic and curative services to curb the life-threatening illness, which has reached an alarming stage, it has been learnt.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that 12.6 million patients are diagnosed of cancer annually in the world out of which 7.6 million of them die each year in the world, while about 44,000 patients are diagnosed with cancer in Tanzania.
Health and Social Welfare Minister, Dr Seif Rashid, said in Dar es Salaam yesterday that to start with, the government would establish centres at the KCMC Hospital in Moshi municipality and Mbeya Regional Referral Hospital.
“The government has invested in improving provision of cancer-related health services in various facilities in the country,” noted the minister while officially opening the Oncology Programme at the Aga Khan Hospital.
The programme is part of Phase II of the 130 billion-shilling Aga Khan Hospital expansion project designed to cover cardiac and other medical specialties. It is financed by the France-based agency, L’Agence Francaise de Development.
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