HEALTH Minister Sylvia Masebo says government will close the Cancer Diseases Hospital for about four to six months in order to refurbish the facility. Masebo says during this period, all cancer patients will be taken to Tanzania where government will spend roughly $4,500 on each of them. Speaking in the National Assembly, Thursday, Masebo insisted that the current machines had outlived their existence and the only way forward was to replace them. “The government in the year 2022 did try to repair the machines at the Cancer Disease Hospital. I want to state that even after the repairs were done, the machines would only work for a month and they would break down again. We went on with this repair...

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