Two state-of-the-art radiotherapy machines used to treat cancer patients will be operational again soon at Addington Hospital.
|||Durban - Two state-of-the-art radiotherapy machines used to treat cancer patients will be operational again soon at Addington Hospital in Durban, the KwaZulu-Natal health department said on Thursday.
Health MEC Sibongiseni Dhlomo told reporters in Durban his department decided to resume its payment to Tecmed Africa, which was given the contract to supply and maintain the machines. The company stopped servicing them in January after the department stopped paying the maintenance contract, claiming it had been obtained fraudulently.
The machines had been gathering dust since then, denying hundreds of cancer patients speedy treatment. - Sapa