A 200-bed specialized hospital for cancer patients will be established soon in port city soon.
AFC Health Ltd, Bangladesh and Cancer Treatment Services International (CTSI), made this announcement at a city hotel yesterday afternoon.
President of the CTSI and CEO Joseph A Nicholas and AFC Health director operations Saidul Amin signed an agreement at the ceremony.
AFC Health, a rising health care service provider, will own and operate the cancer hospital in full technical collaboration of American Oncology Institute (AOI) which is a subsidiary of the CTSI.
Chairman of AFC Health ABM Ghulam Mostafa said: “The construction will begin this year and the work is expected to end within the next 16 months. The specialized 200-bed hospital will provide international standard cancer care with the help of highly experienced local and international consultants and state-of-the art medical technology.”
“Our main goal is to provide quality treatment to the patients within an affordable cost. As we choose Chittagong to set up the hospital, so people from Chittagong, Camilla and surroundings areas do not need to come to Dhaka for cancer treatment.
“We hope that we could provide the best international standard cancer treatment to our patients,” he added.
According to World Health Organisation updated estimation, there are about 12 lakh cancer patients in the country and every year two lakh people are attacked by cancer and 1.5 lakh people die of the disease.
There are 12 lakh cancer patients in Bangladesh, according to statics of the World Health Organisation.
According to WHO, 8.2 million people die of cancer every year while around 10.50 crore women are affected by breast cancer, the second deadly disease across the world each year globally and most of them are residing in the third world countries, including Bangladesh.