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Asmara Radiotherapy Centre Project

Eritrea

Borrower Eritrea
Financing Type Public Sector
Instrument Project Loan
Focus Area Health
Approved 11.09.2006
Signed 12.12.2006
Status Cancelled
Loan Administrator BADEA
Executing Agency The Ministry of Health
Co-financiers BADEA, Government
OPEC Fund Contribution (US$m) 1.00
Total Project Cost (US$m) 6.18

This project will construct the country’s first radiotherapy facility at Asmara’s Orota Hospital, the capital city’s main referral hospital. Works will include:

  • purchase of equipment necessary for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, including chemotherapy;
  • hiring of specialist staff such as oncologists, medical physicists and radiation therapy technicians;
  • provision of training torelated staff; and
  • expansion of cancer prevention and control programs.
The new facility is expected to provide treatment to some 1,800 patients annually.

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