Mulago national referral hospital will have a second Cobalt 60 radiotherapy machine to treat cancer patients before the end of this year, Uganda Cancer Institute has announced.
According to Uganda Cancer Institute director, Jackson Orem, the second cancer machine expected to cost $3.5 million (about Shs 13 billion) will treat up 120 patients per day compared to the recently purchased machine that treats 80 patients per day. The country’s only cancer machine was commissioned early this year in January after a two-year wait after the previous broke down in March 2016.
