Surge in cancer patients raises alarm bell
Seventy cases of cancer are detected every month since the opening of the King Hamad Oncology Center here, Major General Dr Shaikh Salman bin Attiyatallah Al Khalifa, Head of King Hamad University Hospital, has revealed. “The centre was opened four months ago. In the first month, we discovered 70 cases of cancer, in the second month 72 cases, in the third month 65 cases, and these are huge numbers.
The average number of cases detected in Bahrain per month is 70,” he said in an exclusive interview with The Tribune. “There is a significant increase in the number of cancer patients in the Kingdom, and so far we do not know why,” Major General Dr Shaikh Salman said.
“There is no accurate research about this,” he said. “120 beds have been allocated to cancer patients at the Center, but the data have not been sufficient and accurate. So we are now increasing the beds to 145,” he said. The Department of Oncology at the King Hamad Cancer
Center has so far received 1,200 cases involving approximately 1740 treatment sessions using the “Quadriplegic Linear Accelerator System”, the world’s most modern type of treatment.
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