TEN teaching hospitals in Nigeria are to benefit from a N1.44 billion ($9 million) project supported by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to procure cancer-treating equipment.
Beneficiaries of the project to be completed in 2015 are the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba; University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu; Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital (ABUTH), Zaria; University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH), Benin; Othman Danfodio Teaching Hospital Sokoto (UDUTH), Sokoto; University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH), Rivers State; University College Hospital Ibadan (UCH), Ibadan; University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH); Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Gombe; and National Hospital (NHA), Abuja.
Health Minister, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, told The Guardian that currently linear accelerators for treating cancer are available at LUTH, UNTH, the National Hospital in Abuja, UBTH and UDUTH, Sokoto.
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