ZAMBIA records 13,800 new cancer cases annually, of which only 3,000 are seen at the Cancer Diseases Hospital, says Health Minister Sylvia Masebo. And Masebo says US$25 million has been allocated towards the Livingstone and Ndola treatment centres which government will co-finance with Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) and OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID). Meanwhile, Masebo says a team from the Ministry of Health and the Zambia Medicines and Medical Supplies Agency is in India inspecting 42,000 medicines and medical supplies which are a year worth of supply requirements. Speaking during the signing ceremony of the contract with Avic International Zambia Limited for the construction of the Ndola Cancer Treatment Centre, Wednesday, Masebo said government aimed...

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