Uhuru to commission multi-million cancer centre at Coast General Hospital
President Uhuru Kenyatta and Mombasa Governor Hassan Joho are today expected to officially commission a multi-million cancer treatment center at Coast General Teaching and Referral Hospital (CGTRH).
The new facility will be the second cancer center in Kenya after the one at Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral and Research Hospital in Nairobi.
It has been fitted with state-of-the-art radiotherapy machines and can treat up to 120 patients per week when it becomes fully operational.
Last Friday, Heath Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe inspected the facility ahead of today’s President Uhuru’s visit.
The Head of State, who is in Mombasa for a two-day official visit, on Monday confirmed that he will officially open the new centre at CGTRH today.
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