LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz opened Pakistan’s first advanced Coablation Cancer Treatment Centre in Lahore, a milestone in healthcare by delivering a 60-minute painless cancer cure without chemotherapy or radiotherapy, ARY News informed.
The milestone center brings with it a new treatment process that eradicates cancer at its source within one hour without letting patients undergo the agony of traditional therapies, reports informed.
Maryam Nawaz, in her address on the inauguration day, stated that Punjab has become the first province of Pakistan to have a Coablation Cancer Treatment Centre. She reiterated that the treatment will be offered free of cost to patients who are not able to afford it.
The technology, which was brought in from China, is available only in the country there and now in Pakistan. Worth Rs 250 million, every machine costs a probe of $5,500. Maryam Nawaz made an announcement of Rs 5 billion for funding the machines to provide access to treatment to patients throughout Punjab.
She also informed that a machine has already gone online at Mayo Hospital, where five patients suffering from cancer have been treated successfully. Machines have been ordered for South Punjab and Rawalpindi, and three more will be installed at the new Nawaz Sharif Cancer Hospital.
Pakistan opens first 60-minute cancer treatment centre
The Chief Minister further stated that trials will also be carried out for curing kidney tumours with this state-of-the-art technique. She stated that the doctors, including Dr Shehzad, were provided with special training in China on operating the equipment.
Maryam Nawaz characterized the importation of this technology as a “ray of hope” for cancer patients across Pakistan, providing world-class therapy painlessly and with positive outcomes.
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