HEALTH Minister Sylva Masebo says only radiotherapy services will not be provided at the Cancer Diseases Hospital (CDH) during the refurbishment period. Last month, Masebo told the National Assembly that government would close the Cancer Diseases Hospital for about four to six months in order to refurbish the facility. Giving a Ministerial Statement, Friday, Masebo explained that the revamping of CDH would take a minimum of 12 months but services like chemotherapy, nuclear medicines therapy and surgery, among others, would continue. “As for the process to revamp the operations of the CDH, I am pleased to inform this August House and the nation that the procurement processes for revamping CDH are near completion and soon the identified supplier will be...

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