The Uganda Cancer Institute has set up a breast cancer clinic at the Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital with an aim of improving breast cancer care coordination services in the region.
Dr. Collins Mpamani, a public health specialist from the Uganda Cancer Institute, says that the clinic is the first of its kind away from its headquarters in Kampala.
Situated in the outpatient department at the Fort Portal Regional Referral Hospital, the Cancer clinic will provide free services to both men and women and will operate every Wednesday from 9 am to 5 pm.
Dr. Mpamani says the clinic is equipped with an ultrasound scan tissue biopsy machine for examination. It currently, lacks a mammogram X-ray machine, which is specifically designed for breast cancer diagnosis.
He explains that their countrywide cancer screening exercises show that 10 out of every 5000 men are diagnosed with cancer monthly in all the 13 regional referrals. Dr. Mpamani on breast cancer….
Dr. Mpamani says that their decision to establish cancer clinics in the country’s major health facilities is meant to reduce the long-distance patients and members of the general public have been making to access cancer screening in Kampala. END.