Minister for Commerce Jam Kamal Khan told the National Assembly on Thursday that a specialized Cancer Hospital was under construction in Islamabad and would be fully operational by the end of the current fiscal year.
Responding to various questions during Question Hour, the minister said that a 200-bed facility was being established at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) for indoor admission of the various types of cancer patients.
Comprehensive cancer treatment facilities including radiology, pathology, and medical oncology with daycare chemotherapy facilities, oncosurgery, ICU, and emergency facilities for cancer patients would be provided, he said.
The minister said the Ministry of National Health Services Regulation was implementing a PSDP project titled “Treatment of Poor Cancer Patients of ICT, GB & AJK’ since September 2019, in collaboration with Novartis Pharma.
The project aimed to provide free treatment to patients suffering from certain types of cancer, he added.
He said since the initiation of the project, a total of 387 patients were registered to receive free-of-cost treatment. The total cost of the treatment for these five years was estimated to be Rs. 4772.151 million, he said.
He said the letter of understanding (LoU) signed between Novartis International and this Ministry was for five years (2019-2024) and this facility has concluded.
The ministry has developed another PSPD project with the support of Roche Pakistan to provide medicines i.e. Herceptin CP, Herceptin SC, Phesgo, Kadcyla, Tecentriq, and Avastin to each patient until completion of treatment of HER2+, breast cancer, lung cancer and Hepatocellular Carcinoma / liver cancer (HCC) with 97 percent contribution from Roche, he said.
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