State Minister for Health Saira Afzal Tarar on Wednesdya told Senate that the government was considering setting up a cancer hospital in Islamabad.
Responding to a question from Senator Azam Swati during the question hour, she said that cancer treatment was highly costly and four institutions in public sector and Shaukat Khanum hospital in private sector were providing treatment to cancer patients.
Cancer medicines are manufactured in Pakistan in far less quantity and medicines were very costly. Setting up a cancer hospital in the federal capital is under consideration, she told the upper house.
Tarar told the house that the government was going to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with cancer medicine manufacturing pharmaceutical companies to convince them to make anti-cancer medicines at a cheaper rate.
