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Aga Khan hospital offers free treatment to 400 Uganda cancer patients

Chief radiologist at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi, Stanley Rutajunara explains how the linear accelerator machine is used in cancer treatment in this picture taken on January 3, 2012. The hospital has offered to treat 400 Ugandan cancer patients for free after sole radiotherapy machine at Uganda Cancer Institute in Mulago, broke down. PHOTO | FILE |

The Aga Khan University Hospital in Nairobi (AKUH-Nairobi) has offered to treat 400 Ugandan cancer patients for free after the country's sole radiotherapy machine broke down.

Uganda’s largest referral hospital, Mulago, had only one radiotherapy machine which was procured 21 years ago. The machine breakdown left its 17,000 cancer patients in need of radiotherapy care in jeopardy.

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