President Peter Mutharika has warned stakeholders in the construction of the state-of-the-art National Cancer Centre not to give excuses that can affect timely completion of the project.<\/p>\n
The project is scheduled to be completed within a period of 18 months and will be built with a loan of K5.4 billion from Opec Fund for International Development (Ofid).<\/p>\n
Mutharika, who laid a foundation stone yesterday, near Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) said he expects the project to be completed within the stipulated time.<\/p>\n
\u201cMinister of Health, I want this completed within the one and half years and I will be coming here myself to check and make sure that there is progress on it. I want it done by that time,\u201d he said<\/p>\n
Currently, there are 14,000 people diagnosed with cancer and Mutharika said many are dying because of lack of immediate and quality cancer treatment<\/p>\n
He further said the centre will help the government to minimise the cost of sending cancer patients abroad by at least 50 percent.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor so long, we have been sending many people abroad like in India for radiotherapy treatment .The country cannot afford to facilitate everyone to [travel to] India. This centre once completed will cut the cost of sending such patients abroad,\u201d he said<\/p>\n
Minister of Health, Peter Kumpalume, said there are expectations that all stakeholders involved in the project will do everything possible to have the project completed in time.<\/p>\n
Kumpalume said once completed, patients will be accessing free services.<\/p>\n
Representative of Ofid, Khalid Alzayer commended the long-time relationship that exists between this country and Ofid in enhancing the development sector.<\/p>\n
The construction project has delayed as it was initially scheduled to start in January 2016 but failed due to depreciation of kwacha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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