DUH starts chemotherapy facility.

KARACHI -- With opening of chemotherapy facility at Dow University Hospital (Ojha Campus), the treatment facilities for cancer patients have been completed.

In a statement on Wednesday, Superintendent of DUH, Dr. Zahid Azam said OPD, IPD and Day Care facilities were already available to cancer patients at the hospital.

He said the supervision of medical oncology services had been entrusted to a specialist certified by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons.

He said gastrointestinal, breast cancer and abdominal cancer, and other types of cancer need chemotherapy.

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