PESHAWAR: The second Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre will start operations in Peshawar on Tuesday (today).
Initially, there would be 20 chemotherapy beds, six emergency room beds, 12 admission beds, two intensive care unit beds, radiology services, including mammography, plain radiology and ultrasonography and pathology laboratory at the hospital.
In the first phase, the hospital will provide X-ray, CT scan, MRI, chemotherapy and pathological services to the patients that will be followed by radiation services in the second phase, planned by 2015, and surgery after one year.
“It will be 30 per cent bigger than SKMCH&RC Lahore with more sophisticated equipment,” Dr Faisal Sultan, the chief executive officer SKMCH&RC Lahore, told Dawn. Lahore hospital, which was built in 19194, has 200 beds and the strength of beds will reach to 400 over a period of three years.
