GE Healthcare and Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) in Nairobi, Kenya, hosted a PET/CT and Cyclotron Symposium Oct. 25 in Nairobi to drive the discussion of early cancer diagnosis and detection.
More than 200 healthcare specialists from throughout Africa attended the symposium, held in advance of AKUH installing a new PET/CT scanner and Cyclotron from GE Healthcare.
“We are very happy to collaborate with the Aga Khan University Hospital to deliver the first PET/CT and Cyclotron in Sub-Sahara Africa excluding South Africa, which will potentially impact over 800 million people,” Farid Fezoua, CEO of GE Africa and GE Healthcare Africa, said in a prepared statement. “Today’s symposium is an important part in this huge milestone, to drive dialogue in the fight against cancer and equip healthcare professionals with knowledge in such advanced technologies.”
“In addition to establishing the PET-CT service, we will establish in our hospital a new Department of Oncology that will provide a high quality integrated model of care that will be focused on continuous learning, developing and sharing best practice, and focused on the continuum of patient care,” Robert Armstrong, a professor at Aga Khan University Medical College, said in the same statement.
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