KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medical Centre has started operation half year ahead than National Cancer Institute in Putrajaya, said Health Ministry secretary-general Datuk Farida Mohd Ali.
"This regional centre, provides mainly cancer treatment for patients from Sabah and Sarawak, is another feather in health ministry's cap in delivering services for the people.
"It is a facility on par to the upcoming national cancer centre in terms of the building itself, high-technology equipment and specialisation services," she said during the building handover from Public Works Department to Health Ministry yesterday.
The eight-floor building, costs about RM225 million, is housed at Sabah Children and Women hospital here.
It provides diagnostic procedures and treatment for almost all kinds of cancer cases for adults and children.
Also present were State Health director Dr Christina Rundi and hospital director Dr Tan Bee Hwai.
Dr Christina added the facility would enable local people to be treated closer at homes as previously they were either referred to Kuala Lumpur or private hospitals.
"As the centre has just started operational, we are still on final stage to acquire more equipment from overseas.
"Medical personnel are also being sent out for specialised training to handle those sensitive machines,"she said, adding that the facility now has radiotherapy treatment machine and gamma cameras.
A batch of locally trained nuclear medicine specialists will also be serving here in addition to existing manpower at the centre.
Dr Christina also revealed that the state's first bone marrow transplant for Thalassemia child will be conducted at the building by year end.
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