A second Cobalt 60 radiotherapy machine will be delivered to Mulago national referral hospital in August, installed in September and by December, cancer patients will start using it, Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) has announced.
Institute director, Jackson Orem, has told The Observer that the second modern linac machine is expected to cost $3.5 million (about Shs 13bn) and should treat 120 patients per day compared to the recently installed one which covers 80 patients in the same timeframe.
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