GOVERNMENT has signed a $30 million deal with Siemens Healthineers that will see the company rehabilitate, reequip and expand the Cancer Diseases Hospital (CDH) in Lusaka. Speaking during the signing ceremony in Lusaka, Friday, Health Minister Sylvia Masebo said government through the Ministry of Health, secured funding and had now concluded the procurement process. “In Zambia, the sole facility offering radiation services in both the public and commercial sectors is the Cancer Diseases Hospital. The machines at CDH are out-of-date, and obsolete, with no replacement components available on the global market. They were installed in 2006, 2010, and 2014. It is commonly known that all of this equipment needed to be replaced, preferably, between 2016 and 2019, but this was...