Hi-tech cancer scanner to ease costs in Nairobi beginning April
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Media Source: Business Daily (Kenya)
Date: 17 December 2017
The Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) Nairobi and an India-based hospital will next year separately install PET-CT scan cancer diagnosis machines locally, cutting medical costs for patients who travel abroad for the service. The AKUH will offer the PET-CT scan from March while Bangalore-based HealthCare Global Enterprises
The Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) Nairobi and an India-based hospital will next year separately install PET-CT scan cancer diagnosis machines locally, cutting medical costs for patients who travel abroad for the service. The AKUH will offer the PET-CT scan from March while Bangalore-based HealthCare Global Enterprises Ltd (HCG), India’s largest cancer treatment hospital chains, will have its machines ready from April. "Patients will no longer have to travel to India or abroad to get this service as it will be available right here in Nairobi," said AKUH Chief Executive Shawn Bolouki.