ISLAMABAD: The government in Pakistan's Punjab province has opened a coablation cancer treatment center in the eastern city of Lahore, the chief minister announced this week, with provincial authorities labelling it as the first such facility at a public sector institute in Pakistan.
The provincial government brought the facility to Pakistan from China where Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz had observed the advanced treatment method at the Xi Ji Tan & Hygea Medical Technologies.
She had signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Chinese firm to bring the advanced cancer treatment and machinery to Punjab, Pakistan’s most populous province, during her visit to China in Dec. 2024.
“When I visited China, I was visiting a company there and they showed me a machine. They said that ‘this machine, without surgery, without operation, without anesthesia, without the radiation therapy that is done... this machine treats cancer’,” Nawaz said at a ceremony in Sargodha.
“That tumor, whether it is unfortunately in the lungs or in the kidneys, this machine treats that tumor.”
