Zim cancer patients at risk as vital equipment runs short

SENIOR health and government officials gathered at a hotel in Harare, Zimbabwe’s capital, to discuss issues and problems related to cancer treatment in the country as it faces a critical shortage of radiotherapy and chemotherapy equipment.

“Cancer treatment services in the country are highly unreliable,” said Nothando Mutizira, a cancer specialist at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospital, one of Zimbabwe’s largest referral facilities.

On the eve of World Cancer Day, observed around the world on February 4, Mutizira indicated that services are frequently interrupted, owing to machine breakdown.

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