THE Zambia National Public Health Institute (ZNPHI) says the country is sending cancer patients to Tanzania because the available radiotherapy equipment is obsolete. ZNPHI, however, says government has invested $28 million into replacing the obsolete equipment at CDH. Speaking when he featured on ZNBC’s Sunday Interview, ZNPHI Director General Professor Roma Chilengi said the equipment have outlived its eight-year lifespan. “Talks about the problems we have with cancer treatment, talks about the fact that we have to send patients on cancer radiotherapy to Tanzania and how that is a problem, and it’s correct that we have a problem, but one needs to understand what the problem is and one need to understand what the government is doing. So, radiotherapy equipment...

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