Bulawayo (ZimEye) – The machinery used to treat cancer patients at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo has been grounded for the past 16 years, putting lives of cancer patients into danger.

The Head of the Radiotherapy Department James Chinganga said the two critical machines – the Linear Accelerator and Gamma Camera broke down in 1999 and 2003 respectively.

He said cancer patients in Bulawayo are forced to seek the specialised treatment in Harare and neighbouring countries.

“As you know the hospital caters for the entire Southern parts of the country including patients drawn from as far as Masvingo, Midlands and the two Matabeleland provinces and just imagine the number of people that were affected by this.

“We do provide chemotherapy treatment but we cannot entirely rely on that as the disease needs to be continuously traced as to see whether it is spreading or not and there is no way we can see what would be happening if the machines are not working,” he said.

The British Embassy donated spare parts worth over US$50 000 to the institution to assist cancer patients. (ZimEye, Zimbabwe)

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