Sindh Government plans on providing free cancer treatment facility

Karachi: While talking to a delegation of the Cancer Foundation led by its Chairman Maqsood Ansari, the Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah announced that the government was working towards establishing cancer health facilities for the provision of free cancer treatment in the public sector. The cancer hospitals would be established in different districts of Sindh aligned with the pattern of the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases. The CM has decided to subsidize treatment expenditures in hospitals operating as welfare institutions until such facilities are brought in the public sector.

According to the CM, the government has also partnered with philanthropists and the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre administration for the establishment of the CyberKnife Centre for cancer patients at JPMC.

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